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It was terrible from a security POV, but the tooling was superb.

I remember my teenage friends creating things with flash in a way that doesn't happen on the modern web.

Sure, but that's because the media and forums change, not so much a point about tool capability. The equivalent of teenaged geeks hacking on flash games today is influencer wannabes editting trends in CapCut. If anything content production is far more accessible now than in the 90's.

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