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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.269s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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cr125rider ◴[11 Oct 25 23:04 UTC] No.45553469[source]▶
Macromedia Flash. Its scope and security profile was too big. It gave way to HTML’s canvas. But man, the tooling is still no where near as good. Movieclips, my beloved. I loved it all.
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1. netsharc ◴[11 Oct 25 23:16 UTC] No.45553584[source]▶
The iPhone killed Flash, probably because it would've been a way to create apps for it, more probably because it would've been laggy in the 2007 hardware, and people would've considered the iPhone "a piece of junk".

Interesting how Flash became the almost universal way to play videos in the browser, in the latter half of the 2000's (damn I'm old...).