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now like Ralph Hauwert [3], takes Papervision's place) but then Adobe let Flash languish in lacking hardware rendering support and eventually mobile and apps killed it due to native/hardware rendering support, Chrome put the final punch in by changing plugin support. Though HTML5, Canvas, WebGL, SVG, web video, web audio and even wasm is a direct result of the innovation from Flash. Flash even got big in entertainment like video, games and lots of web cartoons still use Flash today for animation (Adobe Animate now) [4] though many use ToonBoom/USAnimation (also inspired by Flash) [5][6]. Sites like joe cartoon, newgrounds, praystation, thefwa etc were all part of it and Youtube jumped on Flash video, big parts of internet history are due to Flash. Flash was one of those rare tools that attracts interactive/creative designers and interactive/creative developers. I don't know that there is another tool/platform that was as attractive to design and development. Adobe Animate is still around but the Flash community was awesome and attracted all types of creative people. Flash was so much more than a buggy plugin in the end, it was a great interactive, vector based entertainment and content creating system overall end to end. Flash/Animate is still out there today but not as integrated. Adobe Animate is the same but can export to apps and html5/canvas/webgl. There are also open source tools that can do flash like but not as integrated as well for designers in OpenFL [7], Haxe [8] and lime [9]. [1] https://threejs.org/ [2] https://helloenjoy.com/ [3] http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/flash-3d-vet-ralph-... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_animated_televis... [5] https://www.toonboom.com/company/customer-productions [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAnimation [7] http://www.openfl.org/ + https://github.com/openfl/openfl [8] https://haxe.org/ [9] https://github.com/openfl/lime

ash will always be an impressive moment in the web and interactives/games. Macromedia was quite the company, Flash/Director both really died from Adobe's hands. I wonder if Microsoft would have bought Macromedia if it had gone different. Macromedia really created fast web video with Flash/ASF formats/RTMP streaming and saved us from Real Player, Quicktime, and Windows Media Player. Flash made possible Youtube. Flash is still around as Adobe Animate and OSS as OpenFL[2], lime[3], Haxe [4] and more. Though it is more focused on compilation to target platforms natively from script and AOT compiling or WebGL/html5 output rather than to the AVM or runtime ActionScript. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_animated_televis... [2] http://www.openfl.org/ [3] https://github.com/openfl/lime [4] https://haxe.org/