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1996-2020

Adobe Flash

The web's animation engine

👑 Hubris

Money Burned

Adobe's entire platform

Body Count

Millions of Flash devs retrained

Lifespan

8766 days (24 years)

☠️ Official Cause of Death

Steve Jobs wrote a blog post

Steve Jobs' 'Thoughts on Flash' in 2010. HTML5 won. Security holes didn't help. RIP to every Newgrounds game.

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The web moved on

💡 The Lesson

When Apple says you're dead, you're dead

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I Was There Too

Raise your hand. Be honest. We all fuck up.

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