Twitter Salutes Adobe Flash Player Ending As Platform Stops Updating And Patching

Twitter is in mourning now that the final day Adobe Flash Player will provide updates and patches has arrived. Starting Thursday, Adobe will no longer support Flash Player, and by Jan. 12 the application will be blocked.

Although Flash Player was used for several things, young adults today recognize the web application as one of the necessary tools that powered their favorite online games.

On Thursday, people began posting tributes to Adobe Flash on Twitter and thanking the program for helping to animate some of their favorite childhood games.

“R.I.P Adobe Flash, you made my childhood, as well as many others. You will forever be in our hearts,” one person tweeted.

Another person added, “With 2020 ending and Adobe Flash ceasing to exist, I reflect on a decade where I became an adult and stopped being a kid, where the joy of playing a game on my computer browser was a simple joy I couldn’t wait to experience day after day. Simpler times.”

Meanwhile, one person was grateful for all of the memories they made while using the Adobe platform over the years. “On December 31st, Adobe Flash will no longer be supported. I didn't own consoles growing up, so Flash is how I learned to love games,” the individual wrote.

“Many of my fondest memories from childhood are of Flash games and animations. Thanks for all the memories. May heaven grant you fortune.”

Although Adobe has kept Flash Player up to date and essentially integrated into the internet, the app has been riddled with bugs over the last few years, according to Bill Karamouzis, CEO of Addicting Games.

“It’s a bittersweet, because when it comes to Flash and the impact that it had from the creator community, it was the probably the most impactful set of tools for the indie developer that has ever existed,” he told NBC News.

“In the later years, security was a concern and legitimate performance concerns, but early on Flash really enabled a lot of people to be creative on the web,” he said.

By Jan. 12, Microsoft, Google Chrome Safari, and Firefox are expected to block all Flash extensions.