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it was about as unique as seeing corn in my poop sometimes.

by SG- 3mo ago

sfn42 3mo ago
Sounds like you didn't experience all the awesome flash games and animated videos etc that people made.
mablopoule 3mo ago
Lot of it was bad, sure, but there was so much games and animation done by literal kids back then, because of how easy it was to create something with the tooling. Nothing even come close today, unfortunately.
tim333 3mo ago
The JimCarrey.com website was cool. That's about the only flash thing I came across that was though. Now gone as a site but recorded on video https://youtu.be/B1XZixLBurQ https://youtu.be/B1XZixLBurQ I'm not sure you can do those things in javascript to this day?
KPGv2 3mo ago
I suppose there's no accounting for taste, but from happy tree friends to xiaoxiao3's flash fights, indie animators made some pretty awesome stuff back then. My university experience included a lot of checking for new, cool flash animations back around 2002. Homestar Runner was another pretty big one. edit: Space Ghost Coast to Coast was Flash. Harvey Birdman must've been, too.
- giantrobot 3mo ago
  Flash as an animation tool vs Flash as a web development tool are two very different discussions. There's overlap and they're related but still separate. Flash was very interesting as an animation tool because it was at its core a vector drawing animation tool. All the scripting components were icing on the cake allowing automation of things that's incredibly tedious in traditional animation. The fast vector animations made Flash very useful for web distribution. That's all well and good. But as it became the go-to for interactive websites the structure of Flash was antithetical to the web. Deep links became meaningless and content became locked behind Flash. Adobe was also a terrible steward of Flash and only put effort into Flash for Windows. Every other platform was an also-ran for them and the Flash experience was terrible. The security of Flash was a bad joke on top of it all. As an animation tool and delivery vector for interactive content beyond the abilities of browsers of the era it was useful. As the front end of the web it was an awful mess.

it was about as unique as seeing corn in my poop sometimes.

by SG- 3mo ago

it was about as unique as seeing corn in my poop sometimes.

sfn42 3mo ago

Sounds like you didn't experience all the awesome flash games and animated videos etc that people made.

mablopoule 3mo ago

Lot of it was bad, sure, but there was so much games and animation done by literal kids back then, because of how easy it was to create something with the tooling. Nothing even come close today, unfortunately.

tim333 3mo ago

The JimCarrey.com website was cool. That's about the only flash thing I came across that was though. Now gone as a site but recorded on video https://youtu.be/B1XZixLBurQ https://youtu.be/B1XZixLBurQ I'm not sure you can do those things in javascript to this day?

KPGv2 3mo ago

I suppose there's no accounting for taste, but from happy tree friends to xiaoxiao3's flash fights, indie animators made some pretty awesome stuff back then. My university experience included a lot of checking for new, cool flash animations back around 2002. Homestar Runner was another pretty big one. edit: Space Ghost Coast to Coast was Flash. Harvey Birdman must've been, too.

giantrobot 3mo ago
Flash as an animation tool vs Flash as a web development tool are two very different discussions. There's overlap and they're related but still separate. Flash was very interesting as an animation tool because it was at its core a vector drawing animation tool. All the scripting components were icing on the cake allowing automation of things that's incredibly tedious in traditional animation. The fast vector animations made Flash very useful for web distribution. That's all well and good. But as it became the go-to for interactive websites the structure of Flash was antithetical to the web. Deep links became meaningless and content became locked behind Flash. Adobe was also a terrible steward of Flash and only put effort into Flash for Windows. Every other platform was an also-ran for them and the Flash experience was terrible. The security of Flash was a bad joke on top of it all. As an animation tool and delivery vector for interactive content beyond the abilities of browsers of the era it was useful. As the front end of the web it was an awful mess.