Remembering - Macromedia/Adobe Flash

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

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Anyone here with fond memories of Flash? The Flash files were in .SWF, occasionally compiled into an .EXE. The first animation I saw was in 1999, a cartoon of Darth Vader doing a rap. The popularity mushroomed in the early 2000s and a lot of the early internet fads (which we now know are called memes) were in Flash e.g. Badger Badger Badger, All Your Base, What Is Love (by Haddaway), stick figure fights, Weebls and rathergood.com. Then at the annoying end of the scale was Crazy Frog and at the tail end (and still equally annoying) was My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic.

In the late 2000s, Adobe took it off Macromedia and they either revealed an existing flaw in it or they (deliberately) buggered it up, eventually killing it altogether. The plugin for web browsers ended in 2020, but I wasn't just going to delete 1000+ SWF files off my PC. Adobe still had their stand alone player on their site after 2020, so I was still able to play them. There are third party Flash players as well such as Ruffle.

What were your favourite animations? Mine are probably too risqué (PG/13) to post here, but you can look them up:

Regurge Episode 01 - Internet Killed The Video Star
Regurge Episode 02 - Pokee

Lots of Flash classics have been converted / uploaded to YouTube.

Now that it's HTML5, there doesn't seem to be the same sort of culture around it as when it was SWF.
 
no... the amount of updates after updates to remove p1 vulnerabilities.

I was at a collage after adobe announced the sunsetting of flash and they was still teaching it as a course... I was like... why are you teaching them this? by the time they graduated from collage then university flash will be long gone.. lol
 
Remember the bad ol' days of flash minigames/animated videos.

Sometimes i wonder how the past will be remembered, i can see long dead actors words recorded on film then digitalised but it seems that the media i grew up with is going to be only memories as they become dead formats or ip worth litigating but not remastering.
 
Remember Miniclip.com

Pretty sure I owe half my education to that website. The missed half obvs, not the dumbass half I actually got.
 
Yes I remember rathergood and Weebl and bob being particularly popular, as well as badger badger badger. There were also lots of ‘desktop’ games that we used to share which I think would be difficult to find now. Like squashing ants, breakout, etc but they lived on the desktop environment or took a screenshot of it at least. Loads I’ve long forgotten too!

Edit - Desktop destroyer was one. Don’t see a working site for it anymore.
 
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adolf hamster said:
Ahh yes, the badger badger badger mushroom song and cows with guns and defend the house are flooding back to me.
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Spent far too long a day working in that to produce a short animation, which usually ended up in one of those current net buzzes.
 
el_dazza said:
Ah the Shockwave days.. that name soon vanished.
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Ah, back in the early high school days when Habbo Hotel was the popular Shockwave game, and we all wanted to learn Lingo to create the new version. Did a lot of Actionscript in Flash too. Remember having a taster day at college with the old colourful iMac G3s I think it was where we learnt how to make bouncing balls. Went straight home, and sailed the high seas to get a copy of it myself.

I do miss Macromedia Fireworks.
 
Cheers guys, for the positives but also for the negatives. I totally forgot that Flash needed a constant barrage of updates! *removes rose-tinted spectacles*

Indeed some of the games were great, and I did for a brief 2-3 years own an all-in-one PC, where the screen had touch input. The games (and other interactive Flash) worked a treat with touchscreen.
 
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