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Flash is about more than just games, musicals featuring Colin Mochrie, and documentaries about badgers and mushrooms.

Flash has lasting anthropological significance. Some of the kids who grew up tinkering with Flash grew into structural roles and helped build the internet as we know it today. Others sequestered the interests that got kicked off of the mainstream into petri dish crevices of the internet such as the early days of 4chan.




> documentaries about badgers and mushrooms

Documentaries about snakes, as well?

In all seriousness, you make a reasonable argument, but tinkering existed well before the age of Flash. Now, won't something else fill the role?




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