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I miss the era of the internet with random games on every website (lemmy.world)
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[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 8 months ago (9 children)

I'm on a Macromedia kick this morning but the internet really died when adobe bought flash, turning point for me personally lol

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah but we have HTML5 now which is better than Flash ever was.

I'm glad Flash is dead. I got tired of having to constantly update it.

Edit: Also mobile gaming is the modern equivalent of Flash games. You just don't see it that way because you didn't grow up with it. I do miss the days when games could just be games without being heavily monetized, but there are still plenty of decent, simple mobile games available that don't have any microtransactions and thus heavily resemble the Flash games you played in your childhood. You just have to be willing to seek them out.

[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah I acknowledge modern web is superior to flash in another comment, but argue the accessability has gone down. Also I was not 'growing up with it,' I was getting paid to write actionscript, then as3, then as3 inside of adobe flex/eclipse.

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