Animated stars of the early internet such as Charlie the Unicorn, Salad Fingers and the game Club Penguin were all brought to life thanks to Flash. The software also helped journalism to evolve beyond print newspapers, TV and radio, ushering in an era of digital news coverage that used interactive maps, data visualizations and other novel ways of presenting information to audiences.
But despite enabling those innovations, Flash was also controversial. In , Apple founder Steve Jobs wrote a scathing letter bemoaning Flash's security issues and the fact that it was a proprietary system underlying so much of the internet. Jobs' refusal to support Flash on iOS devices was widely seen as the start of its decline. A year later, Adobe said it would no longer develop Flash on mobile devices. Adobe Flash Player is officially dead. Here's how to uninstall it. In the following years, the more open web standard HTML5 — which allowed developers to embed content directly onto webpages — gained traction, and made the add-on Flash extension less useful.
Flash was increasingly mocked and despised for being buggy, laden with security vulnerabilities, a battery drain and requiring a plug-in to use. In , Adobe announced it would pull the plug on Flash at the end of Some operating systems and browsers started discontinuing Flash early, and the software's official "end-of-life" day came on December 31, , when Adobe ended support for Flash and encouraged users to uninstall it because it would no longer get security updates.
Since then, a host of Flash-based content across the web has become inaccessible. In some corners of the internet, there are efforts to preserve or restore some of that content.
The Internet Archive has made a push to re-create, save and display Flash-based animations, games and other media using an emulator tool called Ruffle. However, that process can be difficult and won't necessarily work to save all content built in Flash. For its part, an Adobe spokesperson said in a statement: "Adobe stopped supporting Flash Player beginning December 31, Notice: Many browsers are beginning to disable or hide the Adobe Flash plugin, in preparation for its end-of-life in December If you are experiencing problems playing Flash content, please consider installing our official Newgrounds Player to continue enjoying this content indefinitely.
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Hooper's that Elmo finds traumatizing, and Big Bird having to deal with his xenophobic pen pal. This game removed a sequence in which the Statue of Liberty is destroyed by the bad guys, as well as a shot of the World Trade Center. This video game was supposed to feature a climactic battle between Spidey and Electro atop one of the World Trade Center towers, but the location of the fight was changed. Ben Stiller's comedy opened on Sept. Shots that had contained the World Trade Center were not cut, but instead the towers themselves were digitally scrubbed from the footage.
In this sci-fi movie starring Guy Pearce, a scene in which large chunks of the moon fell from the sky previously included shots of New York being devastated. Released in , Michael Bay 's disaster opus shows New York being wrecked by meteors, with iconic landmarks like Grand Central Station and the Chrysler Building bearing the brunt of it. A helicopter shot of the aftermath featured the two towers of the World Trade Center smoldering, and it was removed in the broadcast TV version of the movie.
Unfortunately, these older web pages can no longer be played due to the Flash plugin being blocked from loading in the browser. A Samsung-owned software called Harman has also partnered with Adobe and can help companies to keep Flash-based content running. Some newsrooms have taken it upon themselves to rebuild Flash content. For its coverage of the 20th anniversary of September 11th, USA Today republished some articles timed with the first anniversary and that included recreating some Flash-based interactives.
One of the stories USA Today published in was an investigation into the elevator system in the World Trade Center that included a Flash graphic explaining how people got trapped inside them on September 11, The USA Today team chose to remake that graphic and republished it earlier this week. USA Today has archived many of its old interactives by storing the original files on its servers.
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