Flash is the only thing that needlessly ate my battery worse than javascript though.

Pretty sure half the internet surfers had plugins that made flash run only when user activated by the time it started to wane.

Personally I only activated it for games i wanted to play, so most of that creativity was lost on me.

That was just shonky code, nothing to do with flash itself.

All of it ?!?

I remember the time when pc fans hearable meant 95% that i opened a web page with a flash component by mistake...

Heh, I’ve used that test to guess if someone was running npm.

The flash runtime was pretty efficient but the authoring tools were so easy to use that anyone could produce "working" abominations filled with the most good awful code that got the result they wanted.

I guess there is nothing wrong with javascript either?

Humanity has proven it can't handle anything else than static pages. Then the developers themselves have to pay for their bloat rather than the users.

I’m taking about a bit earlier - ie before mobile phones.

Obviously flash was not designed for small screens or small batteries.

But it could have been adapted! If Adobe had been in any way competent or caring the flash runtime could have been converted to html5

But Adobe suck

> before mobile phones.

It was the same even before mobile phones. Laptops had batteries too. CPU fans sounded even worse than today when pegged at 100%.

That program shaped my brain in ways I can't articulate. Took things I learned about computers and animation as an 11yo for granted as basic knowledge.