Now it’s abandoned, but a lot of websites were built on FLASH technologies. Basic HTML technologies didn’t provide enough tools and methods for designers to express their ideas and FLASH which was used commonly to create an animation and interactive presentations stepped into the Web.
https://pavellaptev.github.io/web-dark-ages/
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