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Flash Back: An “oral” history of Flash

I don’t know what the first video game I ever played was. I would have been too young to remember. It very likely could have been a Flash game running in a web browser, patiently downloaded over a dialup connection. I got interested in computers at an early age,

The first song I found and listened to online was Weird Al’s Angry White Boy Polka, set to a music video animated in Flash, around 2003-2004. That site from the company my dad worked at was a performance sucker, used a proprietary program to go around the browser, and excluded a whole chunk of web users without a good reason. Many popular game-making tools, like Godot, SDL, and TIC-80, can produce games that work in web browsers, which can now run high-performance code and even 3D graphics without any plugins.

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