Flash: Saviour of the Universe?
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- Thelonious_Funk0
Dope.. thx for posting!
- georgesIII0
ahahhahaha
It did save the universe.
- bogue0
that is so bizarre.. actually had that issue.. probably the only create online magazine i've ever owned.
- mikotondria30
It was, totally the savior of my universe.
I remember clear as anything when I first opened up my trial, and after working through the tutes in about 10 minutes sketched out our record label's logo, and shape tweened it into something else, which then got other shapes and lines tweened in, background color change, text box in, buttons in, sound plays - done.
I thought it was fucking magic and I'll stand by the idea that no other piece of software since will provide as many people with such inspiration and desire to innovate and create. It changed my life, and millions of other peoples, and as badly as it was subsequently used - by all of us, myself included, there won't be anything with that impact for a long time.
- showpony0
flash is always dissed by people who don't know how to use it. with this endless sea of sameness these days, i miss the experimental days of flash... at least then we were asking questions of the medium...
- same. i miss all the experimentation.airey
- +1colab
- <Continuity
- prophet0
i remember being blown away by the potential of flash back then. like when the barney's site was reworked (by kioken) and you could drag the nav around! or the bad boy records site with the side scroll and element dragging. and then the subtle use of flash like with the nike enjoy the weather site. and of course, praystation. and countless others.
web design had all these new possibilities, it was very exciting. if you were a {1337 h4xx0r} web nerd.
- prophet0
also, i remember getting amped over the 'seasons' at volumeone.com
- hellz yes.
http://volumeone.com…
prophet - fuck yeah... i studied every pixel of every season.showpony
- *high fivesprophet
- hellz yes.
- kpl0
It had such potential back then. All of it wasted it seems.
- ukit0
Not really, just turned out that the experimental vision, cool as it is, isn't what people like to spend their time on all day.
- ukit0
- Continuity0
^
'Flash has become synonymous with animation on the Internet. It's even possible that Flash Player is now the most widely distributed piece of software on the Internet-ahead of Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, and Real Player.'Aaah, those were the days.
- ukit0
haha, Real is actually headquartered right down the street from me, they are still going (but who knows for how long). I've ran into their CEO a couple times.
- dijitaq0
i graduated during the a political uncertainty and the economy took a big hit, especially in the real estate sector. having gone to school to earn my degree in architecture, i was looking at a prospect of unemployment. about a year before i graduated, i was browsing through some examples of flash website and i was totally blown away. i picked up a bootleg copy of flash and taught myself flash and html.
a few months before i graduated, i saw an opening for a flash developer and applied. i bullshit through the interview and created a small website with some cheesy text animation but they were quite impressed and landed the job.
flash was the saviour of my universe!
- yes.... a couple of years ago you could make major coin with a bunch of cut-paste actionscript
vaxorcist
- yes.... a couple of years ago you could make major coin with a bunch of cut-paste actionscript
- eieio0
wo timeline... but in a good way
- showpony0
thinking more about this, i think that so much of what people are excited about today often has its roots in flash. in the early days, flash (and director) provided ways for designers to relatively easily prototype possibilities in the "new media" without needing a team of developers to make something "work"... many of those studies have been silently absorbed into our thinking about web today, with no credit given (especially by print designers who, ironically, seem to be running so many of the design blogs these days).
- yep, it was the catalyst for hundreds of design concepts.kingsteven
- instrmntl0
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- egosmoke0
I still remember sitting in my studio in the dark with headphones, completely engulfed in the Donnie Darko site from hi-res. To this day I still don't think any other site has affected me the way that did. Good times.