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Comment by sippingabonedry

1 hour ago

Flash went away because Steve Jobs made an impassioned plea to find a better way and follow their humble browser which only had single digit percentages of marketshare at the time.

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himata4113  34 minutes ago

html5 canvas and javascript advancements made flash obsolete, reminder that you used to be able to run java in the browser!

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