A lot of us from the millennial generation remember playing flash games on AddictingGames or Miniclip. For some, this even happened during class (guilty). It turns out that Adobe Flash Player, which was an important part of many of those games, has been given its death knell. As of January 1st, 2021, Adobe officially dropped support for the platform. Adobe will also start blocking flash content starting on January 12th. This shouldn’t come as a surprise as Adobe actually announced this all the way back in 2017.
This has been a long time coming. Flash has always been a bit of a security risk. This was particularly important around 2011, when flash was incorporated in around 28.5% of all websites. It was used for games, news content, animations, and so much more. However, technology is always moving forward and people started to migrate away from Flash after its peak. Different tech giants have been migrating away from the platform for over a decade now. In 2010, Apple announced that Flash would not work on the iPhone and iPad. In 2015, YouTube moved away from Flash, preferring HTML5. Modern versions of internet browsers have also been slowly removing Flash from their code as well.
With Adobe blocking Flash soon, a major era in internet history will be coming to an end. Luckily, many internet archivers are working to save some of that great (and not so great) Flash content for future generations. The internet in all of its glory will continue with only a few outdated websites losing content.
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