Sweet! Only took a decade but now Flash will finally run on all the mobile platforms. :-)
Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive
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#112As a former 15-year-old Flash developer, I can't denounce this move enough.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Content creator is a vanishingly small lottery winner occupation now and in the future unless it’s connected to a product in some way.
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#114There'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!
Thank you for using your tech skills to help preserve the old web for the rest of us to enjoy.
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#115Flash as a technology should never be used now unless for artistic purposes. However, it's preservation to be able to run & archiving of flash media are an absolute cornerstone of any attempt to archive the 2000s internet. Flash introduced & inspired countless people who have no doubt gone on to build amazing things in other technologies. I love flash. I'm glad it's not used anymore, but I truly love the content it p…
There's a lot of really good games built for Symbian as well. I'm glad to be building for Android/iOS, but those were some of the best mobile games I've ever played. Touch screen has a lot of limitations when it comes to gaming.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, Adobe's failure to keep Flash relevant is the problem. Not Steve Jobs. It's not like they didn't try to work with Adobe. Adobe just couldn't get it done. This is what disruption is like. It's great that we have orgs like IA doing the work to keep this old content alive and accessible, and a platform like the Web that can grow and adapt over time.
> Adobe just couldn't get it done. They should have fully open sourced it, at least the runtime.
> > Adobe just couldn't get it done.
> They should have fully open sourced it, at least the runtime.
Rumor had it that there was code in there that Adobe (or more likely, FutureSplash) had licensed and couldn't release.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Flash as a technology should never be used now unless for artistic purposes. Nothing filled the gap left by Flash. It was easy, accessible, and drew so many young people to create. Flash had security issues, but they could have been fixed. Macromedia and/or Adobe could (and should) have published an open source standard and realized their tooling would always be ahead of the game. They didn't see the incredible opp…
I feel like Unity3D could be turned into an animation tool like Flash with some extensions. It already has HTML5 export.
Unity’s HTML5 export is super heavyweight (unless you do some super complicated things getting it to work with the ECS stuff). Flash was...though abused a lot, much more lightweight, able to slot into a randomo webpage without sticking out too much/causing performance issues.
Also as a direct substitute, Unity has much inferior font rendering, and no built-in vector graphics capabilities.
If I was doing a 2D animation tool for browser export, I don’t see that unity would offer me much, and would come with a lot of downsides.
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#118Earlier 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…
That's because it was probably just one guy who had the authority to put that there without any threat of getting fired. Google today would set up a committee with diverse groups represented (including HR, PR and Legal) to focus test any and all potential "hate joke incidents" to ensure bland and inoffensiveness to all. The ongoing YouRube Rewind fiasco demonstrates this very well.
I have to thank the Japanese for having a sense of humor otherwise "all your base" would have died a slow and painful death long ago at the hands of the joke police, and it still might if it were to ever leave its relative obscurity.
Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive
#119There'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…
Here to add https://dagobah.net/ to the list
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#120What is the Internet Archive's stance on pornographic contents? A significant proportion of our culture, nonetheless treated as taboo and lost too often.
Kinky animations and semi-interactive games were well suited to the Flash format, with its ease of distribution (small file size, single webpage/file) and multimedia capabilities.