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Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

grishka wrote: post #45
TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #4

All Your Base Are Belong To Us... preserved forever: https://archive.org/details/flash_allyourbase

Oh. For some reason I very much like the memes from that era, and I've seen this particular one for the first time.

Huh, interesting you don’t know that one. Memes had a bigger impact then: there were fewer of them, they were more unexpected (because they were newer), and in fact the word meme either did not exist or, if it did, it was certainly not in widespread use.

Anyway:

“ On June 1, 2006, YouTube was taken down temporarily for maintenance. The phrase "ALL YOUR VIDEO ARE BELONG TO US" appeared below the YouTube logo as a placeholder while the site was down. Some users believed the site had been hacked, leading YouTube to add the message ‘ "No, we haven't be [sic] hacked. Get a sense of humor.”’

I can’t imagine YouTube doing anything like that today for a meme?

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

#102

Post by krapp »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #101
grishka wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh. For some reason I very much like the memes from that era, and I've seen this particular one for the first time.

Huh, interesting you don’t know that one. Memes had a bigger impact then: there were fewer of them, they were more unexpected (because they were newer), and in fact the word meme either did not exist or, if it did, it was certainly not in widespread use. Anyway: “ On June 1, 2006, YouTube was taken down temporarily for maintenance. The phrase "ALL YOUR VIDEO ARE BELONG TO US" appeared below the YouTube logo as a plac…

>and in fact the word meme either did not exist or, if it did, it was certainly not in widespread use.

The word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene, in 1976. The internet got the term from the book.

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by textfiles »

fireattack wrote: post #90

Nitpicking, but I won't consider either Leekspin or Caramelldansen memes strongly related to Flash so it's weird to see them picked up as examples.

Yeah, I'm gonna call that nitpicking. Also wrong. But it all depends when it was in your view.

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

#104

Post by TedDoesntTalk »

krapp wrote: post #102
TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh, interesting you don’t know that one. Memes had a bigger impact then: there were fewer of them, they were more unexpected (because they were newer), and in fact the word meme either did not exist or, if it did, it was certainly not in widespread use. Anyway: “ On June 1, 2006, YouTube was taken down temporarily for maintenance. The phrase "ALL YOUR VIDEO ARE BELONG TO US" appeared below the YouTube logo as a plac…

>and in fact the word meme either did not exist or, if it did, it was certainly not in widespread use. The word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene, in 1976. The internet got the term from the book.

Thanks, but as I said, it was not in widespread use in the 90s... at least not in an internet context.

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

#105

Post by navanchauhan »

Confiks wrote: post #14

There's an enormous cache of historic SWFs hosted here [1] and it would be awesome if the Internet Archive could archive them, so they won't get lost. However, there are far too many to individually add. My personal favorites would be the Demented Cartoon Movie [2], Weebl and Bob's transdimensional portal [3] (which is located under the stairs) and of course The End of the World [4]. They all load perfectly in Ruffle…

Currently recursively downloading from [1]. Afterwards I’ll start testing and uploading them.

Edit: Most of the SWF files are showing a black screen on the demo website, even though I do not have time to individually debug all files, I might be able to automate the testing part

I just remembered that I have tons of SWFs on my hard-drive too. If someone else has a data-dump, do share!

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by fireattack »

textfiles wrote: post #103
fireattack wrote: post #90

Nitpicking, but I won't consider either Leekspin or Caramelldansen memes strongly related to Flash so it's weird to see them picked up as examples.

Yeah, I'm gonna call that nitpicking. Also wrong. But it all depends when it was in your view.

Yeah, after another thought, my view probably stressed on "originality" too much, since both are "copied" from existing animes (and songs).

Indeed their popularity was boosted by Flash.

Just feel we have a healthy amount of original pieces (both animations and games) to pick from when talking about Flash.

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

#108

Post by ComputerGuru »

acdha wrote: post #29
superkuh wrote: post #10

What 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.

I can download Linux ISOs and video as as MKVs just fine to use or play them on my PC outside the walls of the web browser just fine.

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

#109

Post by k2xl »

quercusa wrote: post #98
k2xl wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

same here. i got into AS2 in highschool and built many flash games. some people still play them and our sad it won't be playable on chrome by end of the year

Is there any hope that Boomshine might work on this and that you'd consider uploading it? Please....

Possible... I guess worth a try

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

#110

Post by gogopuppygogo »

echelon wrote: post #96
boarnoah wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The mid 2000s era was a really magical time for me growing up. Just the sheer amount of interesting games and videos available on places like NewGrounds and Kongregate was something else. It was kind of crazy how easy it was at the time to get at least some attention to any proof of concept project simply by posting onto said sites. Something that has definitely gotten much harder over time despite the more advanced…

I think today's creative youth are on Twitch and TikTok. I'm not sure if they're building the same kind of future capital and skill sets that we did, but maybe it'll turn out well for them. Especially if there's an explosion in the creative economy. Still, it's incredibly hard to beat a technology that teaches kids to program as a side effect. Flash and early web raised up a generation of engineers.

Seems reasonable that being a content creator is a viable career for young people as automation and globalization continue to eat jobs.

TikTok is probably teaching vital skills for their futures.

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