 Flash 10th AnniversaryPosted on August 30, 2006 by Grant SkinnerIt’s been a great 10 years! I’ve been tinkering with Flash since FutureSplash, annd haven’t regretted a moment (well, I maybe regret the week I spent learning screens and forms in mx2004). All the tenth anniversary activity has been awesome. I’ve really enjoyed looking back at old sites that really inspired me. The two that influenced me the most by far were nrg.be, which brought home to me just how cool Flash could be, and yugop.com, which woke me up to the full potential of AS for building experimental and reactive systems. Ahh… those were the days. So much excitement, so many ideas still untapped! Flash is still awesome, but it doesn’t have quite the same pioneering aura that it had in the v4-5 days (though in its defense, you can actually make money with it now, which is a bit of a bonus).
The party was great, with lots of reminiscing with old (and new) Flash friends. The Flashtinis were pretty gruesome, but those things always are (never trust a drink that gets poured through a corporate logo made of ice)! I gave a more coherent interview about the history and future of Flash for an Adobe devnet article – there’s some interesting comments by other developers there, worth checking out. I also had a blast organizing and MCing (am I the only one that thinks “MovieClipping” when I see MCing?) the Edmonton Flash User Group’s tenth anniversary party. If you haven’t already, I’d strongly recommend checking out the FWA 10 years of Flash site, to see the most influential Flash sites of the past 10 years. You should also check out the 10th anniversary minisite that Adobe put up. Happy 10th Flash! Keep on making the web a cooler place to work and play!!
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5 Comments
Yep, those flashtinis were terrible. But the glowing ice-sculpture sure did look cool :-)
I would have said hi, but never bumped into you. There sure were a lot of people there.
Posted by: Kristin on Aug 30, 2006 2:00pm URL: http://www.galaxygoo.org
Not sure the pioneering days have ended. I believe the best is yet to come.
Posted by: C4RL05 on Aug 31, 2006 3:20am URL: http://www.noventaynueve.com
Kristin,
I saw you once, and headed over to talk, but you disappeared. Darn vertically challenged folk. :)
Carlos,
I agree, the pioneering days have definitely not ended, and there's tons of experimentation going on. There just isn't the same level of industry wide excitement that there was a few years ago, but I don't think that's a bad thing overall. It means Flash is starting to grow up. There's still tons of room for cutting edge, exciting experimentation, but it's tempered with real, formal, corporate projects.
Posted by: Grant Skinner on Sep 1, 2006 8:50am URL: http://gskinner.com/
Whoo hoo happy 10 years Flash. I remember it was the eye4u site that got me hooked and yes Yugo Nakamura's yugop site just blew me away.
I started playing around with Flash version 3.0... I think I was in grade 9 at the time.
hehe
Posted by: Eric on Sep 4, 2006 9:27am URL: http://eepmon.com
I remember the orginal ego media website. that was the one that got me into flash.
Posted by: James Murgatroyd on Sep 8, 2006 9:42am URL: http://www.jamesmurgatroyd.com