Flash allowed webpages to have more complex animations to the site and it also allowed the implication of video and flash games. It also allowed for everything in it to be the same for everyone instead of it possibly being different. Although flash was huge for sometime it declined in popularity when it was not implemented in the new iPhone. Steve Jobs believed that the new HTML 5 would replace flash and be better overall due to browsers being able to build on it. However since HTML 5 was not as develop yet flash still ran many popular sites like youtube videos or facebook games. In 2011 Edge Animate was released by Adobe to create HTML 5 for mobile devices. Adobe admitted that HTML 5 was better for mobile devices instead of flash. In 2015 Youtube made its default
video player HTML 5 and Adobe's flash player allowed hackers to put surveillance software ontocomputers. Adobe discontinued Edge Animate and made Animate CC. Animate CC allowed HTML
5 and Flash to be developed. Facebook is still using flash for its games but there is very few parts of the web that still use flash. Google announced that their browser Google Chrome would block flash by default but will still be able to turn it on. Flash is definitely dying but it is something that should not be forgotten. It was a large part of the webs history and without it the web would not be what it is today. There are many archivists trying too keep flash in archived sites.
