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Anon misses flash
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this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2026
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And the shitty slow overly complicated 'web app' pages that could've presented the same content in a hundred lines of HTML. That was done in Flash before it was done in JavaScript.
To be fair, flash filled a gaping hole in html and css standards for a hot minute. Heck for the longest time flash was the best way to serve a video player because of those limitations. It also was instrumental in enabling animated videos on the Internet in a time when video on the web was too bandwidth intensive to be viable. We're talking the days of Internet connections measured in individual megabit per second being "fast" and dialup not being uncommon
Y'all had megabit connections?
I had dial up. Load a page and walk away and do something else for a bit. 56 kbit/s was theoretical max. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial-up_Internet_access