Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted December 31, 2020 Hash Fellow Share Posted December 31, 2020 December 31, 2020 is the last day of Flash on the Internet. I'm sorry to see it go. Adobe Flash Player Ending Sparks Wave of Jokes, Memes and Tributes A huge part of my professional CG career was doing Flash, starting when it was "Future Splash" 1.0 in 1995. Flash was a way to get interactive animated graphics over the WWW before anyone had heard of "broadband". A big reason my job at Nortel lasted as long as it did was that I was the only person in our group who "got" Flash. They couldn't see the possibilities until you showed it to them. I was once asked to give our group a demonstration of this Flash thing the Internet was talking about. I showed how you could use Flash ActionScript to monitor a counter and trigger a graphic when it reached 10. A girl who would later become my supervisor sniffed, "Why would anyone want to do THAT??" She had no vision. Her creative powers pretty much topped out at choosing something besides Times Roman for a Word document. I don't miss her. But, come midnight, I will miss Flash. It's like everything I did at Nortel was pointless. Of course, it was already mostly pointless since Nortel no longer exists but soon you won't even be able view my mostly pointless work. Most of it was technical training material but here is a rare bit of character animation I did, for the long-ago world of 2000, when 56K modems roamed the Earth... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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