cognitive psychology. PhD 
Important point here (beyond the nostalgia). Flash game sites had an amazing amount of unfiltered creativity that just doesn't seem present in the app stores that replaced them. Maybe WASM + creator tools could change that?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhvey_FjtXA …
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I'm sad the new mediums that emerged (App Store, yep, but also plain HTML/CSS/JS) didn't allow for rich, self-contained interactivity in the same way. I don't see WASM+Tools helping unless the self-containedness of the SWF comes back.
Agreed that the creativity has diffused into other corners of the Internet. Curious though what you mean by "self-contained" here? It's possible to create a self-contained JS app, although creative tooling seems lacking.
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A SWF file was self-contained the way a JPG is self-contained. 1 file that can be uploaded via FTP, opened locally, sent via email. 1 HTTP request. You'd sling SWFs around the same way you'd swap tapes or hand out zines. Everyone had Flash Player, so it felt zero-dependency.
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