Today I was visiting the Animate Archive website for no reason, and the page said that Adobe is in the process of taking the Animate Archive down. I feel slightly distraught.

Yes, Adobe owns the rights to the program. They can do what they need to do. But they are also taking away the curiosity of individuals who want to learn about the Internet back then, and what types of interactivity web-surfers want to experience. And what if a person wants to know what a program was like before the year of 2024, like version 8 for example? That feels like you don’t care about the history of technology.

I understand that technology moves on at some point, for the sake of security and modernism.

Another reason why Adobe is doing this is about copyright infringement. It makes sense as Animate Archive is giving away older versions and serials of Animate (Flash), but the site is somewhat of a preservation site too! Think of the Internet Archive for a second. It is fighting all these years back then and now to be a resource of web history and real event history. Where would we go if it disappeared? If it did, we would have to turn to physical media. Don’t get me wrong. Physical media has its importance too, like the Declaration Of Indepenence and VHS tapes. But physical stuff gets old and not functionable over time. Backups are beneficial!

All in all, us humans cannot do anything to stop Adobe’s power for modern software and from those DAMN SUBSCRIPTIONS. Things have to change at some time, and I can grasp the knowledge of this. Thank you MegaCharlie for curating the Animate Archive along with your contributors. With your love for the past Internet and ours, we can be aware of what came before us.

Flash is history. Let’s not erase history. Screw you, Adobe.

P.S. I DO NOT CONDONE PIRACY IN ANY FORM, THIS NEWS POST IS JUST TO DISCUSS ABOUT THE CURRENT EVENTS OF PRESERVATION.