As a web designer in the 90s and 00s, I envied my colleagues who did their work in Flash. They produced far more exciting spectacles than I could create via then-current HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—tools that were fairly limited and inconsistently supported at the time. 1/2

But my HTML websites from back then still work beautifully today, whereas my pals’ masterpieces can only be experienced on old computers running obsolete OSes, browsers, and plug-ins. So, there’s that. Better to have bread for 100 years than cake for 5 minutes. 2/2