The Real story of Flash

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When comes to new media animation, They come in all different forms, For a lot of years, people had their animations on Floppy disks, CD-ROM, Video file formats, etc. but, in 1996 there was format that changed new media animation in a different way, When new media animators used Video file formats and Java, Flash was the new thing to have animations, and started a phase which was called ''The Flash Craze'' where everyone used flash player when everyone else had their animations on Video files and Java. Flash animations were mostly made by Independent and amateur animators, But most Independent and amateur animators weren't used into the .swf format and still had their animations on video files. Other animators were still had their animations on Java.
Flash has been used in many websites and people weren't used into the format,
People like it and people don't like the format. When YouTube was launched in 2005, People had their animations flooding on the site.
Flash was still seen on many websites, but people still were not used to the format
when Adobe announced that flash player going to be end of life soon.
Flash died last year, so, The truth is not all animations are in the .swf format and they are other software besides of Flash.
 
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Amy Madison said:
Flash wasn't shit or anything, it didn't led into security problems, It had great quality into animations, but not all animations made on the flash format, Especially if it's hand-drawn or CGI.
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The terms are typically "raster" or "vector".

Sorry, I mentioned Flash in OPs previous thread.

edit: I'm going to mention VIVO though, that was the best format of 1996 and the progenitor of online video!
 
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Amy Madison said:
it didn't led into security problems
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except it did. Things like Flash and even sites that continue to use Javascript have a bad habit of leaking browser and other information. Not only is it part of the reason why HTML5 is a thing, but it's also why plug-ins like uMatrix exist so it stops that shit from happening (granted, depending on the site, the page either looks like shit or doesn't load at all).
 
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As everyone and their grandmother knows by now, Flash is a giant unpatched security hole, which is why they killed it. However, I can't help but feel a strong sense of nostalgia for the good ol' days.




We're talking about a whole segment of 2000s internet culture that has been summarily erased with the death of an entire format. That's kind of a big deal.

Sure, there's Adobe Animate and HTML5/CSS/Java, whatever, but the new Adobe shit sucks ass and is buggy as fuck, and most people who still use it are using it to make weak-ass globohomo, commercialized "art".


Everyone else either quit animation, or they grew up and started using real shit, like Toon Boom Harmony.

I can't help but shake this strange feeling that the globalists wanted Flash gone because it was a link to the internet's rowdier, untamed past, when nothing was sacred and everything was parodied. Something about Flash was too spontaneous and too far removed from the bland, corporatized, homogenized culture that they're trying to push everything towards.
 
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Drain Todger said:
As everyone and their grandmother knows by now, Flash is a giant unpatched security hole, which is why they killed it. However, I can't help but feel a strong sense of nostalgia for the good ol' days.




We're talking about a whole segment of 2000s internet culture that has been summarily erased with the death of an entire format. That's kind of a big deal.

Sure, there's Adobe Animate and HTML5/CSS/Java, whatever, but the new Adobe shit sucks ass and is buggy as fuck, and most people who still use it are using it to make weak-ass globohomo, commercialized "art".


Everyone else either quit animation, or they grew up and started using real shit, like Toon Boom Harmony.

I can't help but shake this strange feeling that the globalists wanted Flash gone because it was a link to the internet's rowdier, untamed past, when nothing was sacred and everything was parodied. Something about Flash was too spontaneous and too far removed from the bland, corporatized, homogenized culture that they're trying to push everything towards.
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Flash isn’t gone though, it’s just in the post-Adobe era. And the solution to the security hole was just to sandbox it.
 
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Drain Todger said:
As everyone and their grandmother knows by now, Flash is a giant unpatched security hole, which is why they killed it. However, I can't help but feel a strong sense of nostalgia for the good ol' days.




We're talking about a whole segment of 2000s internet culture that has been summarily erased with the death of an entire format. That's kind of a big deal.

Sure, there's Adobe Animate and HTML5/CSS/Java, whatever, but the new Adobe shit sucks ass and is buggy as fuck, and most people who still use it are using it to make weak-ass globohomo, commercialized "art".


Everyone else either quit animation, or they grew up and started using real shit, like Toon Boom Harmony.

I can't help but shake this strange feeling that the globalists wanted Flash gone because it was a link to the internet's rowdier, untamed past, when nothing was sacred and everything was parodied. Something about Flash was too spontaneous and too far removed from the bland, corporatized, homogenized culture that they're trying to push everything towards.
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Flash is a real animation software, but the only REAL animation software is Toon Boom Harmony and lets you save your animations into a video file format. Flash isn't a giant unpatched security hole, Flash is a good format, it sometimes led to security problems.
I mean, Web series based on toys used to use the flash format, but later moved to video formats during mid-to-late 2000's.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
The terms are typically "raster" or "vector".

Sorry, I mentioned Flash in OPs previous thread.

edit: I'm going to mention VIVO though, that was the best format of 1996 and the progenitor of online video!
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Actually, it was introduced in 1998, In 1996 though, videos were in the MPEG, MOV and AVI format.
VIVO was used in everything especially animated videos both 2D and 3D.
The format used in pornographic websites for download.
Most 2D animated videos were used with Video file formats and RAM.
 
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Drain Todger said:
I can't help but shake this strange feeling that the globalists wanted Flash gone because it was a link to the internet's rowdier, untamed past, when nothing was sacred and everything was parodied. Something about Flash was too spontaneous and too far removed from the bland, corporatized, homogenized culture that they're trying to push everything towards.
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Drain Todger said:
I can't help but shake this strange feeling that the globalists wanted Flash gone because it was a link to the internet's rowdier, untamed past, when nothing was sacred and everything was parodied. Something about Flash was too spontaneous and too far removed from the bland, corporatized, homogenized culture that they're trying to push everything towards.
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I think you're halfway there. Apple fought hard to make HTML5 and CSS3 a replacement for web animations so the web would conform to iProducts and they wouldn't need to be beholden to Adobe. Flash is a tremendous battery drain on mobile so it made sense for them to swing their weight around.

Sadly there is no drop-in replacement for Flash when it comes to self-contained, interactive animation.
 
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Drain Todger said:
As everyone and their grandmother knows by now, Flash is a giant unpatched security hole, which is why they killed it. However, I can't help but feel a strong sense of nostalgia for the good ol' days.




We're talking about a whole segment of 2000s internet culture that has been summarily erased with the death of an entire format. That's kind of a big deal.

Sure, there's Adobe Animate and HTML5/CSS/Java, whatever, but the new Adobe shit sucks ass and is buggy as fuck, and most people who still use it are using it to make weak-ass globohomo, commercialized "art".


Everyone else either quit animation, or they grew up and started using real shit, like Toon Boom Harmony.

I can't help but shake this strange feeling that the globalists wanted Flash gone because it was a link to the internet's rowdier, untamed past, when nothing was sacred and everything was parodied. Something about Flash was too spontaneous and too far removed from the bland, corporatized, homogenized culture that they're trying to push everything towards.
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I agree 100%. Flash was the biggest thing back in the day because it made animation, game development, and web design more simple. Say what you want about how flash websites looked, it was a more direct link between art and interactivity than html, JavaScript, and css even to this day, and that made for websites which are 100 times more visually interesting and fun than the bland minimalist chickenshit that any normie with a subscription to square space can slap together from a template. I fear that nothing will ever capture the same magic as homestar runner, where each menu page had a unique visual theme, and the cartoons themselves were full of interactive Easter eggs, which is something that is robbed from us in video format, especially since, for no reason at all, annotations and the wide functionality they provided were removed from YouTube. This "progress" tech giants use to justify shit like this has taken nice things away and given nothing back that could replace them.
 
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Amy Madison said:
Flash wasn't shit or anything, it didn't led into security problems, It had great quality into animations, but not all animations made on the flash format, Especially if it's hand-drawn or CGI.
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Flash in and of itself was horrible. An extensive fucking memory hog and was vulnerable up the ass.


HOWEVER, people made fucking awesome things with with it, like Homestar Runner, Stickman fights on Newgrounds, the Trials series, Alien Hominid, Star Wars Gangsta Rap, THERE SHE IS, etc.
That's the only reason I'll miss it. And even then a good chunk of it is preserved thanks to Ruffle, Internet Archive's native flash plugin, Newgrounds Player, etc. The program is dead, the stuff that it spawned will be here for a long ass time
 
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