Rip Adobe Flash.

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On December 31st 2020 Adobe Flash was phased out. Most browsers have already stopped supporting Flash by default a long time ago.

Whilst this likely creates a more streamlined, fast, and secure browsing experience, there is concern that a lot of content will become inaccessible or lost, especially content from the opening years of this century.

Macromedia's Flash empowered a generation of creators like Joel Veitch, Koit, and Cyriak with a toolkit to bring their deranged and wonderful concepts to life, in a format that was friendly to those on very low bandwidth connections.

Thankfully there is a project that is cataloguing a vast amount of Flash based media such as web series and games. Everything from Salad Fingers to Xiao Xiao has been preserved within BlueMaxima's Flashpoint, a sandboxed virtual browser that can only connect to a single server. There's also an offline version with all content stored locally, though its 500GB(!).

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint

I'm delighted that cultural oddities of a more innocent age, like All Your Base Are Belong To Us, Peanut Butter Jelly Time, and Badger Badger, won't disappear into the ether. Preserving cultural heritage is extremely important. Culture is the link that binds us all together – shared wistful memories that connect our understanding, beyond ideology and geography.

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