Our new print issue features “How YouTube Ate TV,” an oral history of the video-sharing site’s impact on entertainment, culture, and business as told by dozens of eyewitnesses past and present. As we ...

Last month, Microsoft revealed its final plans to remove the Adobe Flash plugin from Windows 10. With mandatory removal starting in July 2021, no less than 1.3 billion devices running on Windows 10 ...

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A message to uninstall Flash appears above a Flash-based work of art by Rafaël Rozendaal titled "Future Physics," from 2007. (Screengrab by Carolina A. Miranda / Los Angeles Times) It was a tale of ...

Few technologies have yielded such divisive and widespread passion as Flash. Many gush over its versatility and ease of use as a creative platform or its critical role in the rise of web video. Others ...

Three years ago, long after the rise (and fall) of Flash, Adobe announced that its once-ubiquitous multimedia platform was finally going away. But Adobe never provided a specific date for when Flash ...

The impending demise of Adobe Flash will create legacy challenges similar to Windows XP as companies begin to wean themselves off the vulnerable code base. Few times have there been technologies so ...

For me, the internet has always been tied to videogames. It's not quite so simple, of course, but using the internet has always been an inescapable part of the medium—to find and discuss them, and to ...

When I was at university I did a few modules in web development (which back then was really just HTML) and multimedia design. In those days the web wasn't fast enough to handle much in the way of ...

Flash, it's been a good run. We've had a lot of fun together, but it's time to get some distance... permanently. That doesn't erase my fond memories of playing together back in the day, but we both ...