Farewell Flash, Adobe's Media Runtime Reaches End of Life on NYD 2021
Flash Logo Flash, the Adobe Media runtime which was acquired from Macromedia reaches the end of it's lifetime on Friday, January 1st 2021 by which time browsers will no longer allow the technology to run and Adobe will stop supplying the software. Indeed, Microsoft has been prompting Windows users with a dialog box to uninstall the software. At one point in time, it seemed the whole world was powered by the technology. It went from a necessity for viewing web content to 'you'll probably still need it for a couple of sites' to just a frustration when you visit that one site still clinging on you visit every few years. NewGrounds Logo From Newgrounds to Youtube, it seemed every website used Flash, and it would often be the choice for companies providing an online television or radio experience to supply protected streams only decodeable to the device first received on through DRM (Digital Rights Management) framework. Real Player was also used on the BBC, and later
