Post #3267185

2026-06-08 03:21 UTC

The whole CSS thing was a huge mess but that CSS Zen Garden website was trying its best to sort of explain its benefits and you were just starting to come around to this new, worse, more complicated way of doing things that might nonetheless let you do some neat tricks (although not as cool as flash obvs)

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@ifixcoinops@retro.social 2026-06-08 03:24

So there was this weird situation where the Open Standard, the libre open source shit, the anyone-can-make-it-in-notepad shit, was the realm of very boring websites, and the proprietary, locked-down, $600 to get started software was where art met anarchy. The proper fun, the proper expression of humanity and experimentation with interactive web content and making not just new stories but new ways to tell them, was happening in Flash, which was being bought out by giant evil megacorp inc. The reason for this is two things, first Flash was WAY easier, and second my friend with a tarp full of CD-R's from earlier in the thread

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@rastilin@aus.social 2026-06-08 03:23

@ifixcoinops@retro.social The real problem with flash, for websites, is that it doesn't handle different resolutions very easily. Which wasn't an issue when everyone was on 800x600, but explains why it started dropping off when people expected their site to work on phones, tables and desktops of different aspect ratios. That being said, I remember when people had entire businesses building drag and drop flash websites, before Wordpress took off.

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