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There is a trove of flash animation that is completely lost to history (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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From Homestar Runner to Salad fingers to badgers, stick figure battles, and the End of Ze World, this — dare I call it an artform? — was a cultural touchstone for a generation.

Flash made vector animation available to the masses, and internet distribution of the relatively small video files was a piece of cake. With the filetype now essentially deprecated, the creators gone on to bigger and better things, the distribution sites shut down, it is a dead form. Most of it will be lost forever, although there may be someone archiving some of it for posterity.

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[-] Masta_Chief@lemmy.world 47 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Guys, homestarrunner literally works again thanks to something called the Ruffle Project (just from reading the website). Enjoy the vector graphics and Easter eggs again

[-] czardestructo@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I use Ruffle on my personal domain to host my college flash web page again. I made the super Mario world map into a web page for an internet gaming group on campus and spent way too much time doing it. I was delighted I could host it again.

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