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- mikotondria30
Oh dear ^, inteliboy - it's a nostalgia for the movement and creative environment and culture that it fostered rather than any technical aspect of the tool (which was a bitch, if we're honest).
90% of everything is rubbish. I'd say even more sites are bad now, because they're bland.
It was a great time to be creative around 2003 if you were ahead of the curve you could easily bosh out the sort of individual, risk-taking, creative site experiences that clients lined up for, and there was always some awesome new exciting site to learn from that pushed the boundaries of UX, UI and the platform.
Flash drew closely together so many design disciplines and made it easy to learn about layout, typography, animation, motion graphics, scripting, backend coding. When Adobe naturally tried to expand each of these aspects further into their relevant fields, it began to fall apart - as3 was a bridge too far and the fertile little intersection it had enjoyed diminished.
Had Adobe spent their time and money perfecting the problems with Flash rather than setting it icarus-like toward the sun, we'd still be using it today.
If you ever loved Flash, you'll share my heavy heart at how watching it die, it was a bitter pill watching Mr Jobs et al tread over it on their particular journey, but like a brave pal in an old war movie, we knew it was never going to make it home.
'Go on without me', it gasped, around 2008 - 'I'll be ok.'
Last seen whoring itself out on facebook on a massive cartoon farm.
RIP.- Stop drilling you have struck oil. The internet was fun creative and beautiful. Never do you hear this about sites these days.chossy
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