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thanks for watching tech wiki click the subscribe button then enable notifications with the Bell icon so you won't miss any future videos by now you may have heard that Adobe will be ending its support for the venerable Flash Player in 2020 that's only two years left for the platform that around the majority of the interactive web games and animations that I used to waste my time playing way back in high school but what's wrong with Flash is it simply being cast away for something newer and flashier or is there a good reason to get rid of it to answer this question we need to start at the beginning with why flash became as popular as it did in the first place you see way back in the 1990s when in the height of cool on the internet was having your own Geocities page there weren't a ton of options for interactivity or even just animation aside from gifts yes gifts that is until 1996 when Netscape started offering a piece of software called futures flash viewer for its web browser futuresplash surprisingly was not a chillwave band but rather a software solution for graphic designers that supported animations and vector images we take these things for granted today but at the time it was so innovative that Microsoft decided to use futuresplash on the MSN homepage to help it stand out from its web portal competitors that gave the platform a ton of exposure in a short amount of time once that happened a company called Macromedia which would later be purchased by Adobe bought futuresplash and renamed it flash and this was before the year was even over as time went on so did flash development and it gained the ability to code many different kinds of interactive experiences paving the way for sites like the infamous newgrounds.com and other massive repositories of online games then in 2004 it got video support fun fact YouTube even used to use flash for many years to power its entire library of content but just because something is super widespread and popular doesn't mean it's perfect and flash had plenty of warps many of which started to come to light in 2007 with the release of the first iPhone even though flash was a major component of many webs it's at the time iOS did not support flash this led to a ton of frustration for many users but Apple stood by its decision pointing out that flash was proprietary and resource heavy in large part thanks to its dependence on inefficient software video decoding and that latter point was particularly problematic for the battery-powered mobile revolution that Apple was at the process of unleashing and in retrospect Apple's timing was actually pretty good see in the late 2000s open standards that provided some of the same visual and interactive functionality as flash were really starting to take off and aside from using efficient hardware video decoding that Apple claimed could double screen time while watching videos they were free they were afraid and if all those reasons still weren't enough for you flash has also been a favorite target of attackers and black hats for much of his existence but not only that but Adobe has come under heavy criticism for not doing enough to patch these holes in fact Adobe released a public apology at one point for taking over 16 months to fix one particular issue so nothing happens overnight it wasn't until 2015 that YouTube finally transitioned away from flash in favor of html5 but this trifecta of major shortcomings along with enormous improvements in open standards have continually eroded Flash's market share in the high quality video and interactive web arenas arenas that used to be nearly its domain exclusively but with all that said when support for flash ends in 2020 it won't disappear completely because there will always be ancient websites that will simply never be updated and believe it or not offline flash is still widely used in the animation industry even for current TV shows so even though flash will be disappearing from your online life it 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