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
randomly, still flashing back to my old talk about the once and future web from aeons ago, where i touch on those flash days https://youtu.be/AHtTpyhMqH0?t=1243 (though the recording quality of that talk is atrocious)

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Patrick H. Lauke: The once and future web - Front Row Conference Krakow 20.10.2011