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jjoonathan on June 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after D...

It used to cost $500 or something, but that isn't stopping people from framing Flash as a champion of adolescent creativity.

johannes1234321 on June 15, 2020 [–]

Back then it was easy to find a license key somewhere. These days it takes more effort to bypass registration requirements etc.

Thus folks in their adolescence got used to the tool and then got stuck and some later paid ...

I don't want to know how many Flash games were made on copies of questionable legality ;)

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