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Minecraft swf google drive2/5/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() There were forums everywhere, not just that abomination reddit. See you in 20 years and 45-50☌ in Northern Europe. Summers were warm but not the burning hell of today. I don't want to know the amount of spying that was going on there. MMORPGs were big and the social networks of that time, besides ICQ which was a falling star but the main platform to send messages, also MSN messenger. Steam was new and didn't have much power. You could also say anything without bullshit censorship. And you could actually find things to buy in local stores vs Amazon swallowing everything. Work was fun because "SOLID" and OO fetish wasn't there yet, no k8s, no cloud, no microservices. Better times too, everyone knew the Dubyas were full of shit and most people didn't go haywire yet with the gender crap and the 15 years of Islam hate terrorism brainwashing etc. That was the internet I loved, pre Facebook, pre cookie banners, pre everything bad nowadays. What is thy bidding my master, it's a disaster, Skywalker we're after, but if he could be turned to the dark side, yes, we'd have a powerful ally." So for all you Vader haters we'll blow your planet up. "It's not the east or the west side - no it's not, it's not the north or the south side - no its not, it's the dark side - you are correct. "When you're a kid an you wanna go wee but you ain't got drugs yet, you hold on to your life, you hold on to your gonads and strife, gonads and strife x3, gonads in the lightning in the the lightning in the the rain weee." Instead we have the steaming pile of garbage that is Javascript, the one surviving attempt to make that better (Typescript), CSS that is now tortured beyond recognition, no good tooling for building animations or highly interactive interfaces etc.įlash was a scapegoat to kill the old web but also to ensure that the burgeoning App Store/Play Store would rule mobile instead of something more accessible and cross platform. We would be writing frontend "web" code in AS4 or AS5 by now in a fully tricked out IDE that would support code, design and animations in a single interface. There exists an alternate universe where Macromedia stayed independent or was acquired by a party like Mozilla interested in openning up the Flash standard. While it was Macromedia it was no threat to established players, neutral ground if you will.Īdobe was much more relevant during that era and as such the acquisition painted a target on it's back. I don't think Flash is shit canned if it wasn't acquired by Adobe. So a friend might suggest I watch something, but then when I watch it, I might see something different if I just use a different player? That seems less than ideal.Īnyway, love the visuals, and we could use more stuff like that, but really dislike the above points. > Effects that change depending on if you're using flash player or Ruffle > Moiré effects that change if you mess with the zoom setting on your browser > Extremely dense patterns that would get destroyed by video compression Also seems like the kind of thing that would eventually be used to try and force you to watch ads, which I don’t need in my life. If I saw something cool or missed something, I want to see it again without having to watch the preceding 20 minutes again. ![]() I might want to set aside some time to watch something if it’s too long for the break I’m taking right now. I like to know whether I’m going to have time to view all of something or not. The visuals were a lot of fun, but I don’t understand why I, as a viewer/consumer/whatever of this sort of thing, would ever want these things: But both were instrumental as stepping stones in the early 2000s to transform non-computer-literate individuals and businesses into creators and users. Many people loathe Flash for its security vulnerabilities, or VB6 because of experiences with poorly-written code at businesses that should have had a 'real programmer.' And today, a tool that made the same design decisions that Flash and VB6 did - pandering to novices who weren't willing to go to the effort to do things right - would be derided as a toy, as unusable for real work outside of sandboxed demos. No, if you expect support for Unicode or 64-bit operations, it wasn't built for that. Yes, the mere existence of settings like `On Error Resume Next`, `Option Strict Off`, and `Option Explicit Off` are anathema to correctness, security (lol), and robustness. Yes, you can engineer something with better architecture that's less likely to paint you into a `DoEvents()` corner. OK, now that we've all calmed back down, VB6 has been unmatched in the way that it allowed someone with zero experience to drag-and-drop and write in what looks like pseudocode to get some little business widget built. I feel like the same is true of Visual Basic 6.
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