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Imagine some day in the 1600s something started stopping people from reading parchment scrolls.

Huge swaths of art is going to be lost, forever.

Glad to hear what Newgrounds and Ruffle are doing.

I've heard that is essentially the case. The number of people who speak Latin has dramatically declined, even among scholars and historians, and huge amounts of historical literature is now left ignored or unread. It seems a little fantastical that there may be new history waiting to be discovered.

Latin is one of the best-documented languages. Even Google Translate can translate it with tolerable accuracy. Even picking through ye olde handwriting is a bigger challenge.

What good is a challenge if noone takes it?

Ruffle looks really promising.

I see the Homestar Runner site has switched over to Ruffle, so its Flash-based content (even the stuff from 2001) works just fine.

https://homestarrunner.com/post-flash-update

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