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Cybrain,
I think the same thing basically. There were so many sites doing stuff with actionscript when people were first figuring out how far you could take it.
But then, watching a ball bounce, or something move in relation to the mouse got kind of boring.
It was always cool to see the stuff on Praystation and how it was implmented into a bigger picture: menus, navigation, etc.
Same with Natzke.com and several others.
I think many people got over all the stuff that had no point to it, and started to find ways to make it have a use and build off the AS they learned. Because look where it is today. People thought they'd pack their portfolios with all that experimental stuff, just stuff that had no use really, and thought that web design companies were going to be busting down their doors. Some people were lucky, yah. But look what it lead to. Good, useful, profitable work dynamic content, databases, XML, video, great animated artwork, 3d games, what am I leaving out?
It's good to look back and see that for many it did lead to something beyond all that.