They had like 12 years from the time Steve Jobs announced that (Adobe) Flash was dead to its removal and some companies didn't do anything about it until "hey, it doesn't work!" People I know in the education and training space have told me so many horror stories about educational publishers who just flat out ignored that Flash was going to be killed.and cheapskate school districts who wouldn't fork out however many millions the textbook publisher wanted for their crappy "interactive" content when they did move on. And yes, there's still a lot of this crap kicking around in dark corners, quietly running equipment that costs millions to replace or generates millions a day. Stir in ActiveX, Java applets and other messes and it's a toxic brew for sure. That period from the late 90s to the early 2000s is particularly tough Microsoft had people convinced that the only way to write web apps was to use every one-off IE and IIS feature. I'm one of the weirdos who actually enjoys the challenge, but browser stuff is the worst.
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