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I owe my technology career to Flash. Still find it incredibly sad that Adobe and Steve Jobs were able to destroy it together. This tool was able to draw in creative, previously non-technical people and provide a gradual ramp of complexity that we could navigate. Nothing has come close since.
I assumed this was going to be about Stick Death but I was mistaken! I had never heard of XiaoXiao before this article... Stick Death was online when I first starting used the WWW, I was obsessed with it! It was just incredibly to me that someone could easily make these animations and get them online for everyone to see! I believe this around the same time as 2advanced and the "Flash intro" craze...
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The problem with flash is that it was a security, performance and usability nightmare for web browsers. Yes the games and videos were cool, but 99% of the usage of Flash was awful ads and UI/UX elements.
I just used an click to load flash extension in firefox back then and everything was fine.
That’s basically how h.264 and DRM is being done in the browser for stuff like Netflix, today, right?
I owe my technology career to Flash. Still find it incredibly sad that Adobe and Steve Jobs were able to destroy it together. This tool was able to draw in creative, previously non-technical people and provide a gradual ramp of complexity that we could navigate. Nothing has come close since.
The product itself still exists as Adobe Animate, I think (or one of the Adobe CC tools). It's just as good or better than it ever was, with the same workflow. But instead of exporting to SWF now people just export to video and share it on video platforms. Lots of great stuff still being done with it on Youtube.
I suppose itch.io fills that niche now.
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Send us a file listing for `fun' :)
That has a *lot* of random images I downloaded. From street art, over those "priceless" memes people used to make. All in The videos directly there are a bunch of internet famous things, some of them in German: Basshunter_Boten_Anna_German.avi, PatchMeUpMusicVideoByRootKit-GeekVideo.avi, trafo-entkopplung.avi, wow_forporn.avi, fainting goats.flv, gangbang.flv, Gruftis1989.flv, hape kerkeling.flv, HumanCamera.flv, Wii…
I had actually built a bot named Anna to trick friends on IRC (with AIML) so when I came upon the song it felt hilarious.
This is what the world lost when Adobe Animate/Flash became impractical to pirate and switched to a monthly subscription fee for the Adobe suite.
I owe my technology career to Flash. Still find it incredibly sad that Adobe and Steve Jobs were able to destroy it together. This tool was able to draw in creative, previously non-technical people and provide a gradual ramp of complexity that we could navigate. Nothing has come close since.
Flash was a poorly written piece of software. It had numerous bad memory leaks and a CPU hog. It was never allowed on the iPhone probably because it would have drained the batteries really quickly. On top of that HTML5 was starting to catch on and could eventually do everything Flash could and do it better without the memory leaks and poor CPU usage. I have the very unfortunate claim to the title of being an engineer…
Now, the code people wrote was CPU hogs, because lots of non coders were writing code and they would do anything to make it work. The Flash runtime was not causing the Punch the Monkey and to peg your CPU, it was because the punch the monkey ad was fucking awful code.
All those Flash programmer went on to write the first wave of HTML5 stuff which, shock horror, where vastly CPU inefficient.
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No it was a usability nightmare. Watching Flash Youtube on Android technically worked but it was a horrible experience. Google were ok with "works but janky af", but Apple weren't.
We could have kept that creative environment (that seem to just disappear without any alternative to this day) while leaving videos to evolve as they did. People here complain like they have issues with long term memory, but reality was - there was no real web video before. That apple had more issues than others was problem that should have been contained to apple walled garden alone. World was, is and will be much l…
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That has a *lot* of random images I downloaded. From street art, over those "priceless" memes people used to make. All in The videos directly there are a bunch of internet famous things, some of them in German: Basshunter_Boten_Anna_German.avi, PatchMeUpMusicVideoByRootKit-GeekVideo.avi, trafo-entkopplung.avi, wow_forporn.avi, fainting goats.flv, gangbang.flv, Gruftis1989.flv, hape kerkeling.flv, HumanCamera.flv, Wii…
Is the first one the "Anna is a bot" song? I had actually built a bot named Anna to trick friends on IRC (with AIML) so when I came upon the song it felt hilarious.