Time Capsule

Between 1997 and 2007 I have worked on a lot of websites, and the majority of these were based on Macromedia (later Adobe) Flash.
Flash player was a CPU intensive technology and many who developed Flash content were not exactly minding CPU cycles. Content would perform differently on Windows and Mac OS, and something which would appear smooth and fast on the former would play poorly on the latter (that was true until the transition from PowerPC to Intel happened).

It is no secret that Steve Jobs particularly disliked it because of how abysmal the performances were even on Apple’s platforms.
Apple refused to allow the Flash player to run as a plugin on the iPhone version of Safari. In 2010 Steve Jobs wrote an open letter titled “Thoughts on Flash”, which was available on Apple’s website but has since disappeared (you can use a search engine to read it somewhere).

I feel lucky because I started shifting my focus away from Flash and towards electronics and Arduino in 2007. My thought was “enough people are really good at Flash, the world doesn’t need me to make more of it”. This way of thinking has been my drive since a young age, and it’s what pushed me to explore new paths while they’re still not very popular :)

That said, I have an extensive portfolio of Flash based work which I could not show, so one day I thought “Is there some mad developer who’s ported the Flash Player to wasm (Web Assembly) so it can be loaded via JavaScript and not require a pluging?”. Well… the answer is (duh!) “yes”, hence here’s a selection of old Flash projects for you to look at. Given today’s display resolutions, they might appear to be very small on your device, but they’ll even run on the ones Steve Jobs went out of his way to shield from the tech ;)