This January 1, 2021 will certainly mark a kind of liberation for many, and finally put an end to this particular dark year 2020. However, this date will also turn an important page in internet history. January 1, 2021 marks the end of Adobe Flash.
I can already hear opponents screaming “this is not too fast”, but for many developers this is an important page and with it the first web animations. Adobe Flash Player will stop updates until January 1st, and all Flash content will disappear by January 12th.
For younger people, Adobe Flash Player was a real revolution in the 2000s. In most browsers, Flash has long been the primary means of displaying animations, videos, and other mini-games. YouTube even used Flash until 2015.
Slow fall.
While the advent of Flash was seen as a minor revolution, Adobe Flash Player quickly developed a very bad reputation when it came to computer security. Over time, animations and flash modules have become easy targets for hackers. I have to say that Adobe software is installed on most computers by default, which greatly simplifies the task of malicious cast.
It was in 2017 that Adobe announced the end of Flash. Since that announcement, even before that, Adobe Flash Player has begun to slowly decline to some and dated death. Today, HTML 5 often allows you to do what Flash provides, and more. In 2014, 80% of Chrome users loaded a Flash page, compared to only 8% in 2018. This comparison is final, Flash has already been around for a long time for most web users.
Nostalgic people like Ben Ladimore have been expecting the flash to disappear for years, and have developed several solutions to establish their favorite technology. Ben Ladimore specifically created Flash Point, which allows you to save tens of thousands of flash programs.
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