Flash Back: An “oral” history of Flash
created: May 28, 2025, 12:21 p.m. | updated: May 30, 2025, 6:53 a.m.
Most notably, the Flash plug-in had a comparatively short start-up time and Flash content usually loaded quickly.
In those dialup days, I would actually check the file sizes before I committed to waiting to load Flash content.
Pretty much every video game I played until the fading of Flash was a Flash game.
And since Flash was Flash regardless of operating system, a Flash game was pretty much automatically cross-platform.
There have been significant efforts to preserve Flash content, like the Flashpoint Archive, which archives over 1.6 terabytes of Flash content, and Ruffle, a Flash emulator that runs in modern web browsers, taking the place of Flash Player.
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