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I'm on a Macromedia kick this morning but the internet really died when adobe bought flash, turning point for me personally lol
Flash was hells response to programming languages though. Where is uh that web stuff that should revolution everything, html5 mebbe?
Yeah there is a bit of nostalgia for me, admittedly. Modern canvas with a decent lib can produce flash-like/flash-superior content but the tooling is aimed at engineers while flash was aimed at creatives/general public (imho), hence why we got so much trash (accessability) but also why we got so much incredible stuff (again, accessability)
Maybe everyone and their uncle had a website back then too but today everything is soaked up and formatted for profit by a select few (fb, google, tiktok, ...)
Yeah, they won because they made things easy imho. Lower barrier to entry === higher user base. I would contest your 'everyone and their uncle had a site' comment, though - for flash you still had to be 'in the know' or curious of how the flash games/animations were made, and then be inquisitve and resourceful enough to get yourself a 'copy' of your preferred flash ide, then figure out how to package/host/etc. Sites like livejournal/tumblr are more akin to what you are describing imo.
Just to clarify, everyone had a website but not everyobe had a flash game ofc. But, when you went to Bobs website he had links to other websittes (lots of peopke had like carousel links) and so on, and you stumbled upon horrors and gems alike...