The slow death of Adobe Flash has been hastened — YouTube, which used the platform as the standard way to play its videos, has dumped Flash in favor of HTML5 for ...
Our new print issue features “How YouTube Ate TV,” an oral history of the video-sharing site’s impact on entertainment, culture, and business as told by dozens of eyewitnesses past and present. As we ...
Come, young and old alike, and celebrate in the animation offerings of yesteryear’s Internet. Back before there was a YouTube or Netflix, we watched short, little ...
Polygon’s latest series, The Masterpieces of Streaming, looks at the new batch of classics that have emerged from an evolving era of entertainment. The genre of “Dumb Internet Video” has evolved ...
On June 9th, 2008, about an hour into Apple’s annual WWDC keynote presentation in California, the breakthrough Rob Small was waiting for exploded from inside a cake. Steve Jobs was up on stage, ...
Adobe announced in 2017 that Adobe Flash Player, better known over the years simply as "Flash," would no longer be supported after December 2020. Twitter users asked why — Flash had been around for 24 ...