Like I said, Adobe has discontinued support for it and is no longer offering any Flash Player downloads. (Remember when the subscribe button was yellow? Eh, now I'm just getting off-topic.) Anyways, the point is that most people have used Flash at some point in their Internet Life™ and are probably going to want to continue using it after it's gone. At one point in time, YouTube required Flash in order to play videos. Games, animations, even entire websites were made in Flash.

SWF files have played a huge role throughout the entire internet. Neither of those platforms seemed to be as popular as Flash Player though.

Some were Java Applet games, like the original Minecraft 'Classic' version, and others were Shockwave games, like Ezone's Lenny Loosejocks in Space. I remember playing lots of browser games when I was growing up. That's just the way it goes when older technologies eventually get replaced with newer ones, like HTML5 in this case.īut Flash will not be forgotten, and it's not necessarily going to be 'gone' or completely unusable, as I'll explain later on. It has also stopped working since January 12, 2021.īrowsers are soon going to be disabling the loading of it as well, and many, many sites will go down due to the lack of visitors. You heard right, the days of using Flash Player as you knew it are now over.Īdobe has pretty much ended support for it, and they are no longer allowing anyone to download and install it. Who knows, this thread might even turn up in search results and help someone who isn't even registered here. I know that this has been known for some time now (I think since 2017?), but I just felt like making this thread in case there are others here who are concerned about being unable to use Flash after December 31st, 2020.

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