While some of this is true, some of it is not (deep links worked fine, there was a brief time where hidden html was encouraged and worked just as well for searc

While some of this is true, some of it is not (deep links worked fine, there was a brief time where hidden html was encouraged and worked just as well for search engines to pick up, etc.) More to the point though- Flash didn't shine as a regular website thing (Adobe people used Dreamweaver for that, if anything). It was a game/application development tool. Most of the time you didn't need any of these web-friendly things, same way you'd expect every game to have a different menu system. It was an awesome time for innovation and creative thinking. Not everything is a flex box. I miss those days