I started using Flash about 10 years ago. Had little knowledge about it back then since during my school years, Director was my main authoring tool. Well, they’re known as Macromedia products before. Similar to Director, Flash can used on webpages as long as the required plugins are installed on several browsers. Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator were the browsers that I used before and each of them had different plugin installers plus both Director and Flash had different plugins as well (If I am not mistaken, shockwave). I can’t recall much but, yeah, imagine today’s browsers to have different plugin installers for each of them and you need to restart your Windows each time installing them, heh. Of course that the current version of Adobe Flash Player is available for all internet browsers without such fuss.
Flag of Japan. Well, that if Flash conquered the country tho
The reason I bring this Flash matters up is actually because of the way Flash changed our Internet browsing habits. Flash has been used for designing our websites for more than a decade. It has then expanded to other platforms like smartphones. But whenever we wanted to browse a site that uses Flash, you’re required to install the Flash plugin to your system. Especially when suckers like us who wanted to watch YouTube videos on a new computer who will immediately download the installer just for that matter. That’s for computer users like Windows, Mac or Linux. Apple iPhone, Nokia Symbian and Windows Mobile users would have problem viewing webpages that have Flash files. Heck, Sony Playstation Interner browser and Nintendo Wii browser do have the same problem as well. Of course, certain tweaks can be done to make sure that Flash file works on those platforms.