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Gone in a Flash: The Race to Save the Internet's Least Favorite Tool
Navigating awful, 100 percent Flash-based sites is an experience many of us have had, and is unequivocally part of internet canon. And it's on the verge of going away forever. Let's take a quick trip down memory lane. It's 2006 and you're wondering where you should eat tonight. So you fire up your Gateway, flick on Internet Explorer, and Google some local restaurants...
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I was a multimedia major in college and we spent a ton of time on Flash. Some of the best websites aesthetically, were flash based. They were heavily stylized and you could convey more meaning. That said, they were resource hogs and you usually had to let it load for a bit to get it to load right. A poorly made Flash site could be one of the most worthless things man ever created. They were made for desktops with higher speed connections, it was never designed for a mobile interface or cellular speed connections. Sadly, I see myself later in life describing Flash to my kids they way people describe 8 tracks.