Adobe planned to end support for its famous Flash on December 31, 2020, and today is the day. Although Adobe will not start blocking Flash content until January 12, major browsers will shut down everything tomorrow and Microsoft will block it on most versions of Windows. Ended.
Flash enjoyed enormous cultural relevance and has great importance in the history of the web, which may be the reason why its funeral procession lasted for years. Browsers started showing the Flash port at the beginning of the last decade, and in 2015, Adobe asked developers to move to HTML5. Things became official in 2017, when Adobe announced it would end support.
While Adobe is finally (mercifully) letting Flash go, it will live in many historical artifacts. The Internet Archive is preserving Flash games and animations, including well-known hits like “Peanut Butter Jelly Time”.
I personally loved doing things in Flash when I was a high school student with a fully legitimate copy of Adobe software on my generic HP desktop PC. Years later, whenever I see some sophisticated words slide into a corporate presentation, I remember struggling to figure out how to animate motion tweens in the Flash editor. Ah, memories.