Ultima Online OST for life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUNtqRPkmo4&t=15s

Yeah, they won because they made things easy imho. Lower barrier to entry === higher user base. I would contest your ‘everyone and their uncle had a site’ comment, though - for flash you still had to be ‘in the know’ or curious of how the flash games/animations were made, and then be inquisitve and resourceful enough to get yourself a ‘copy’ of your preferred flash ide, then figure out how to package/host/etc. Sites like livejournal/tumblr are more akin to what you are describing imo.

Yeah I acknowledge modern web is superior to flash in another comment, but argue the accessability has gone down. Also I was not ‘growing up with it,’ I was getting paid to write actionscript, then as3, then as3 inside of adobe flex/eclipse.

yeah, but for my personal bookmarks a hallucination is not a big deal, not exactly mission-critical lol

<insert outdated xzibit meme here> Agreed, the wildest of wests.

Yeah there is a bit of nostalgia for me, admittedly. Modern canvas with a decent lib can produce flash-like/flash-superior content but the tooling is aimed at engineers while flash was aimed at creatives/general public (imho), hence why we got so much trash (accessability) but also why we got so much incredible stuff (again, accessability)

Summary stuff works really well too - I like to be able to bookmark a page and have tags/brief summary auto-gen’d

I’m on a Macromedia kick this morning but the internet really died when adobe bought flash, turning point for me personally lol

I miss macromedia flash so bad, actionscript for life