Goodbye Flash!

A sad news to people who are fond of old games and animations. Adobe has just announced the last and final scheduled Flash Player update just a few weeks before the plugin’s official retirement. The first roll out for this update will be targeted outside of mainland China since they use a separate version of the software. To the public, December 31, 2020 will be a day like no other. And no, it’s not just New Year’s Eve but on this day, Adobe will stop supporting Flash and will block all of its contents from running on the 12^th of January 2021.

It was back in July 2017 that Adobe had announced that support would finally come to a close for the plugin and major browsers such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and even Facebook came to the agreement that it would phase-out products and contents that were still Flash-based. Not to mention, this is all for good reason.

Even though the plugin received countless of disapprovals from the general public because of its knack for security bugs, there is no denying that the Flash Player did play a vital role in the history of the world wide web. Prior to using CSS, Javascript and HTML5, most of the contents on the internet required this plugin. So now, there is an impending doom on those old games you used to play in high school which is just sad if you were into games such as Newground and many other web games.

With that being said, Adobe has taken the time to appreciate and thank all of the people who supported Flash. “We want to take a moment to thank all of our customers and developers who have used and created amazing Flash Player content over the last two decades. We are proud that Flash had a crucial role in evolving web content across animation, interactivity, audio, and video. We are excited to help lead the next era of digital experiences.”