I would have been disappointed if their examples didn't include BadgerBadger. And they even have the original version! You can tell because if you let it loop for about 5 minutes the audio and video no longer match.
Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive
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#22What I don't understand is why google is intentionally excluding .swf results from search results. Okay, fine, you don't want it in Chrome that's your choice. But not indexing .swf in your search engine product because you don't support it in your browser product is crazy. It's going out of their way, doing more work, to hurt people. I guess this is just another example of being unable to count on profit motivated co…
What would Google index? Can you even decipher the contents of a SWF to get keywords out of it?
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#23Shoutout to Madness Combat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1aubPfepmg
Kids today won't know the pain of not being able to see 50 small stick figures trying to pummel each other at >15fps.
Also Flash was one of the best dev environments in history, in my opinion. More precisely, one of the most accessible, which most dev environments lack.
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#24Not a flash in the pan after all!
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#25OMG Internet Archive take my money now, well done, and thank you. ( https://archive.org/donate/ in case anyone else is feeling generous)
You should donate to the project making this possible too!
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#26The museum-docent write-ups for the featured SWFs are the perfect icing on this archival cake. I never knew there was a debate over the species of onion in Leekspin!
A side note, and perhaps this is down to Safari's imperfect WASM support, but I'm not getting any sound in Safari.
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#27Programming a shitty AS2 "catch the falling object" game with the cheesiest story and uploading it to Newgrounds got me into programming. Might never have if not for Flash.
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#28What I don't understand is why google is intentionally excluding .swf results from search results. Okay, fine, you don't want it in Chrome that's your choice. But not indexing .swf in your search engine product because you don't support it in your browser product is crazy. It's going out of their way, doing more work, to hurt people. I guess this is just another example of being unable to count on profit motivated co…
What would Google index? Can you even decipher the contents of a SWF to get keywords out of it?
Yes, Adobe publishes SWF specs. You can extract text, links, pictures, etc. out.
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#29What I don't understand is why google is intentionally excluding .swf results from search results. Okay, fine, you don't want it in Chrome that's your choice. But not indexing .swf in your search engine product because you don't support it in your browser product is crazy. It's going out of their way, doing more work, to hurt people. I guess this is just another example of being unable to count on profit motivated co…
All major browsers have sunset support for Flash and it's moved behind increasingly strict warnings over the years. Since Google Search is a web application, there's not much value in giving people content they can't use.
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#30Programming a shitty AS2 "catch the falling object" game with the cheesiest story and uploading it to Newgrounds got me into programming. Might never have if not for Flash.
Same here - AS2 and the flash movieclip editor had the perfect learning curve for me - I wonder what the current equivalent is, if any