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I’ve hated Flash for a long time.

Anything that hastens the demise of Flash-only websites is in the best interest of the Internet in my book. I’m not against Flash-only content per se, but when the data you’re serving is perfectly usable as plain text, I really have to ask why. — 2010 Jun 22 on FriendFeed

Many pundits thought that iPad would be useless without Flash.

Steve Jobs HATES Flash, hence iPhone 4G and iPad FAIL? • 2010 Feb 5 • Richi Jennings • IT Blogwatch • Computer World

Oops.

But the beginning of the end was probably when Adobe surrendered on the mobile front.

Mobile Flash Abandoned for HTML5: Adobe Surrenders, Apple Wins? • 2011 Nov 9 • Matt Peckham • Techland • Time

Flash is dead. It just hasn’t stopped moving yet. — 2012 Apr 12 on FriendFeed

But now the writing is clearly on the wall.

Flash, HTML 5 and Open Web Standards • 2015 Nov 30 • Conversations • Adobe

NdGT’s reasoning for why he prefers the Enterprise over the Millenium Falcon is different than I expected, but I would’ve said it’s because the warp drive (AKA the Alcubierre Drive) is actually being worked on, whereas we really have no idea whether hyperspace actually exists (although String Theory necessitates its existence) and opening controllable wormholes permanently linked to places in the Universe that we can specify seems even more unlikely than generating a warp field.

Oh, and Sulu probably knows that a parsec is a unit of distance, not a unit of time.