Patrick’s National School in Ireland had posted important admissions and enrollment updates on its website, when it failed with Flash. Flash’s free and accessible educational content had long been a favorite among teachers for its animations, which they embedded in PowerPoints, homework assignments, and explanatory videos-so much so that one blog post called Flash’s impending end “a threat to education.” Northview Public Schools in Grand Rapids, Michigan, sent out a letter warning of “Flash Doomsday” and apologizing for the administration’s powerlessness to stop it. In 2009, 99 percent of PCs with internet connection had Flash installed.Įducational animations, used heavily in elementary schools and science classes, relied on Adobe Flash. YouTube, Facebook, and Netflix all ran on Flash. Flash provided the foundation for creating viral videos and for streaming high-quality videos.
A plethora of animations and games were produced using Flash: Salad Fingers, Peanut Butter Jelly Time, Facebook games like FarmVille, and “All Your Base Are Belong to Us,” a Flash video-derived from the game Zero Wing-whose 20th anniversary is this month. The software essentially transported the internet from Kansas to the technicolor land of Oz.
But despite the ample time to prepare, multiple government and corporate systems across the world were still caught by surprise when the Flash plugin finally died.įlash first burst onto the web in 1996, revolutionizing how video and audio was used and shared online.
Reminder statements, press attention, and pop-ups warning about Flash’s discontinuation all followed. The software had been flickering out since 2017, when Adobe announced it would discontinue Flash with three and a half years’ warning.
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