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Re:Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December... by SXX on Monday June 15, 2020 @06:28PM (#23533822)
Your common people back then were far more computer-literate than most of career programmers today. Requirements for the entry into profession is so much lower from any point of view: time, difficulty and cost.

Another side is that programming and web is no longer novelty so common people prefer to just pay for someone else for their time rather than learn anything on their own.

Most people prefer to pay their auto mechanic, plumber or electrician even though most of people are capable of fixing many of their problems just by following simple tutorial and common sense. Programming is no different here: it's just easier or more time efficient to pay to someone else.

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Re:Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December... by bsder on Monday June 15, 2020 @06:49PM (#23533975)
> Your common people back then were far more computer-literate than most of career programmers today.

I absolutely don't buy this.

My father, a high school English teacher, could barely run a spreadsheet that I set up for his grades--something that basically everyone can do today without blinking.

And even he could use Hypercard.

It's the tools, not the people.

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Re:Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December... by y2kenny on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:33PM (#23541090)
I second this. Flash, HyperCard, Dreamweaver, VisualBasic 6 are all the tools I (along with my classmates) played with during high school before any official cs/engineering training.
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Re:Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December... by TylerE on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:58PM (#23534467)
Plus life is so much easier when you don’t have to worry about i18n, encryption of any kind, HiDPI displays, Unicode of any sort, really any of dozens of things that modern users expect to just work.
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Re:Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December... by anthk on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:13AM (#23535887)
Sometimes you had. Timezones, encryption for sensitive places, zillions of European standards (one PER language), and so on.
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Re:Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December... by int_19h on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @01:23PM (#23541653)
VB6 had Unicode throughout, and even some HiDPI stuff (e.g. all widgets were measured in "twips", a DPI-independent unit).
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