Watch out, YouTube’s about
It goes without saying that the arrival of flash in the late nineties changed the web massively. It became a medium that was capable of entertaining, not just informing.
However at least initially connection speeds limited how much it could (successfully) be used. Cue the flash splash page.
As flash has improved and connection speeds increased the range of things that can be done with it has grown up to what must be the widest use of flash to date: YouTube.
But the more YouTube becomes vetted by Google, and more mainstream, the more the most popular clips seem to be people/animals falling over, being pushed over, making a mess or being surprised. It’s Candid Camera / Beadle’s About / You’ve Been Framed for the 21st Century. And just as funny.
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