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Flash was once the playground of the web: games, animations & experiments made by anyone with an idea. 💻 Preserving those creations helps recover a lost chapter of culture.

In “Why Preserve Flash?”, Internet Archive archivist Jason Scott explores why Flash matters & why its preservation is vital.

📖 Download & read, FREE from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/141/
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2️⃣/2️⃣ "Flash is everywhere, and nowhere," writes Scott. "But thanks to the Archive's emulation, Flash lives again."

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@internetarchive "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"
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