The Flash and The Freeze

How it started:
In the beginning, Adobe Flash was the new, innovative way to create  cool, animated websites that interacted with the user. The best part of it was how the websites created could be accessed on any computer, without worry of the program not working. It became the new way to create websites in the 1990s and early 2000s. Sadly though, the plugin became a liability to several crashes in programs and photos not loading on the page. Programmers saw this as a huge obstacle for the system, especially for the future generations that would use this. In more recent years, several web browsers, such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and others stopped supporting Adobe Flash as it was causing too many issues with the browsers.

Plugin Guarantee:
The guarantee of this plugin was that the website would look the same as how it was uploaded, no matter the computer or web browser the user gets on to. However, as time went on and technology became more advanced, the plugin became more of a liability.

The Significance of the IPhone and Steve Jobs:
When the IPhone was introduced in 2007, Apple had come to the executive decision to not have the device support Adobe Flash, which is ironic as Apple was the company to create Flash in the first place. Then, in 2010, Steve Jobs posted to the Apple website that the new default would be HTML 5, pretty much kicking Flash to the curb. He stated how the plugin was insecure and resource-intensive, and how HTML 5 was more user friendly.

Uses for Flash and Adobe Software:
In spite of the plugin not being used on the computer, many Android still had Flash available for users. Some of the IOS programs uses Flash for their layout. Facebook uses Flash Plugin for their online games, like Farmville, and YouTube Player. In 2011, created HTML 5, which was a better and friendlier version of Adobe Flash, thus putting Flash out of business. In 2015, YouTube switched the default Flash plugin to the new HTML 5 code. Adobe created the new Animate CC in 2015 also.

Major Companies and Announcements:
Some companies, such as Facebook, still use Flash plugin for games and other programs embedded.
Google made an announcement that they would be blocking Adobe Flash by default, but they will have a button to opt-in Flash for those games that require the program.

Citation: https://qz.com/863467/how-adobe-flash-once-the-face-of-the-web-fell-to-the-brink-of-obscurity-and-why-its-worth-saving/