Flash Article Review

     Adobe Flash appeared in the late 90's, showing promise to revolutionize the internet and how it looked and was used. It was considered to be its own genre of tool used on the internet, something unseen before it. Capable of running games or animations and accessible to everyone who ran Flash Player, until that very player became a liability to anyone downloading it. The complexity and closed format of Flash eventually led to its demise. Because Flash and Flash player are being allowed on less internet formats, it makes it increasingly difficult to preserve. 

     When Steve Jobs in 2007, chose not to support flash on the new iPhone and discredited its very existence because of the use of HTML5, it has been in steady decline since. He says because it was "resource-intensive and insecure" it was no longer needed because of the growing use of HTML5 and JavaScript. This was a misconception by much of the tech community because HTML is a markup text while Flash presented content creators with a plethora of options to create apps. Even so, the technology community has since moved farther away from the use of Flash and even Google Chrome has said in the future it will no longer support Flash because of security reasons with Flash Player. 

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