Ten Years Of Flash Has Changed The Internet

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One of the most successful and pervasive technologies on the web, it started life called Future Splash and became Flash in 1996 when it was bought by Macromedia. For ten years Flash has been part of everyone's online life. You see flash animation on many, maybe most, of the sites you visit everyday. Starting off as just a way to present animation in a web browser,flash has now spread to cell phones and even television. Flash celebrated its 10 years at a conference in Brighton in the UK - called Flash On The Beach - which brought together hundreds of developers, designers and illustrators, many of whom work exclusively with the application. Love it or hate it,it's here to stay. Flash has gotten a bad reputation because of it's use in security exploits but you'll still see it everywhere as you surf the web.