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I am far from the most learned guy in the world but one thing I really hate is being treated like an idiot.. When I ask something stupid, then you can call me stupid. If I say something stupid, Say its stupid.. fine.. but don't treat me like an idiot.
Some of the best Children's TV hosts in the UK and .. well, not sure about else where cause I don't watch them really, Were ones which could simplify things for for children watching without talking down to them. Of the top of my Head, I would say Mathew Corbett is the first in my head which shows this well. anyway..
Sometimes when I'm on youtube or such like, it thinks it is recommending me something good I might like but in fact, it's either something I have no interest in, or worse, It's something which really REALLY annoys me.
Today, It recommended a video which was looking at old Flash Games and claimed in it's title: "Flash Games: the Ultimate Early Internet Nostalgia Trip". Oh where to begin..
Let's start with some terms we need to define:
The Internet is a connection between computers which was first opened around 1969. The term predates it of course, and the idea wasn't new but the internet as it is today, is 1969.
Flash was a program first created by Futurewave as.. I think Futurewave SmartSketch in 1993. It was an drawing tool.. As it started to move to Animation then and became Futurewave Animator around 1995. In 1996, It was brought my Macromedia and was rebranded as Macromedia Flash 1, which when used with Macromedia Flash Player could be used for nice vector animations, which when it launched the web browser version a number of years later, became very popular indeed. Macromedia upgraded the system to allow actions (in a script later referred to as Actionscript 1) between 1996 and 1999. I'm pretty sure I had Flash 4 but my MAIN first flash was Flash 5. I still got that disc.. probebly in the draw next to me right as I write this.. My first things and little games where this. Flash 5 was the first really 'Actionscript' version as while they had it before, it was VERY basic.. so which the original script can be referred to as AS1, It isn't often.. Anyway, AS1 added the ability for basic script interactions. I made Slot machine games, card games etc with that.. pretty basic though. With Flash MX 2004 (which, yes, I also had the disc) they upgraded to AS2 which really allowed Games to be made.. this was, of course, around 2004. I don't need to go past this with AS3 etc.. so that's fine
So.. We know the Internet started in 1969, and Flash Games started about 1996 (but 2000 was the MAIN start of Flash games really being possible). It's currently 2025... so the Internet started about about 56 years ago. Taking the earlier possible date, Flash games started about 29 years ago.
so.. for about the first 27 years, the internet had no games.. and it's only a couple of years longer that Flash games HAVE been around.. so... well.. Flash was clearly not a part of the early internet.. as early doesn't really, by any stretch, include 'first half'.
While I don't like being treated like an idiot, I do know I have... well, some issues which often lead me to treat others as stupid (which isn't quite the same thing) but.. I find I can cope better that way.. Hanlon's razor and all (origin of complex but basically "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity") and it's much better for me to think of alot of people I met as just very stupid then being THAT evil). but.. Lets say the guy/girl making the video is stupid and didn't know that 'The Internet' and 'The World Wide Web' are two DIFFERENT things.. The World Wide Web runs over the Internet.. anyway.. that help things.. we can define the WWW (or 'The Web')
The World Wide Web was started in 1989 using a set of protocols which first existed in CERN in 1989 but was opened to the public in 1991 as a large linked information system. This is what we think of when we look at what things are now. This message you are reading is on the Web, which is being run over the Internet.
So... If we think they mean 'Web' instead of Internet, then.. say 1989, so yep.. 1996 is pretty early.. within the first 10 years.. much better to think of as early.
The fact that they when to some effort to make a video which then gains enough traction to get promoted by YouTube (new accounts and stuff pretty much DON'T get any promotion.. they don't like new comers) and yet hasn't even done this first bit of checking/research.. sigh.. I didn't bother to watch it cause if the name and the thumbnail which is MEANT to get your attention and say 'Watch me!' in the same way a book cover is meant to tell you what the book is about and like (like saying the name of the author, a brief Synopsis of it etc) Is soo insulting, why should I waste my time on it?
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Some of the best Children's TV hosts in the UK and .. well, not sure about else where cause I don't watch them really, Were ones which could simplify things for for children watching without talking down to them. Of the top of my Head, I would say Mathew Corbett is the first in my head which shows this well. anyway..
Sometimes when I'm on youtube or such like, it thinks it is recommending me something good I might like but in fact, it's either something I have no interest in, or worse, It's something which really REALLY annoys me.
Today, It recommended a video which was looking at old Flash Games and claimed in it's title: "Flash Games: the Ultimate Early Internet Nostalgia Trip". Oh where to begin..
Let's start with some terms we need to define:
The Internet is a connection between computers which was first opened around 1969. The term predates it of course, and the idea wasn't new but the internet as it is today, is 1969.
Flash was a program first created by Futurewave as.. I think Futurewave SmartSketch in 1993. It was an drawing tool.. As it started to move to Animation then and became Futurewave Animator around 1995. In 1996, It was brought my Macromedia and was rebranded as Macromedia Flash 1, which when used with Macromedia Flash Player could be used for nice vector animations, which when it launched the web browser version a number of years later, became very popular indeed. Macromedia upgraded the system to allow actions (in a script later referred to as Actionscript 1) between 1996 and 1999. I'm pretty sure I had Flash 4 but my MAIN first flash was Flash 5. I still got that disc.. probebly in the draw next to me right as I write this.. My first things and little games where this. Flash 5 was the first really 'Actionscript' version as while they had it before, it was VERY basic.. so which the original script can be referred to as AS1, It isn't often.. Anyway, AS1 added the ability for basic script interactions. I made Slot machine games, card games etc with that.. pretty basic though. With Flash MX 2004 (which, yes, I also had the disc) they upgraded to AS2 which really allowed Games to be made.. this was, of course, around 2004. I don't need to go past this with AS3 etc.. so that's fine
So.. We know the Internet started in 1969, and Flash Games started about 1996 (but 2000 was the MAIN start of Flash games really being possible). It's currently 2025... so the Internet started about about 56 years ago. Taking the earlier possible date, Flash games started about 29 years ago.
so.. for about the first 27 years, the internet had no games.. and it's only a couple of years longer that Flash games HAVE been around.. so... well.. Flash was clearly not a part of the early internet.. as early doesn't really, by any stretch, include 'first half'.
While I don't like being treated like an idiot, I do know I have... well, some issues which often lead me to treat others as stupid (which isn't quite the same thing) but.. I find I can cope better that way.. Hanlon's razor and all (origin of complex but basically "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity") and it's much better for me to think of alot of people I met as just very stupid then being THAT evil). but.. Lets say the guy/girl making the video is stupid and didn't know that 'The Internet' and 'The World Wide Web' are two DIFFERENT things.. The World Wide Web runs over the Internet.. anyway.. that help things.. we can define the WWW (or 'The Web')
The World Wide Web was started in 1989 using a set of protocols which first existed in CERN in 1989 but was opened to the public in 1991 as a large linked information system. This is what we think of when we look at what things are now. This message you are reading is on the Web, which is being run over the Internet.
So... If we think they mean 'Web' instead of Internet, then.. say 1989, so yep.. 1996 is pretty early.. within the first 10 years.. much better to think of as early.
The fact that they when to some effort to make a video which then gains enough traction to get promoted by YouTube (new accounts and stuff pretty much DON'T get any promotion.. they don't like new comers) and yet hasn't even done this first bit of checking/research.. sigh.. I didn't bother to watch it cause if the name and the thumbnail which is MEANT to get your attention and say 'Watch me!' in the same way a book cover is meant to tell you what the book is about and like (like saying the name of the author, a brief Synopsis of it etc) Is soo insulting, why should I waste my time on it?
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