Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive
I owe my career in animation to Flash - without it the barrier to entry would have been way too steep. I messed around with a super 8 camera in my teens but the expense of developing film and the lack of any mentor or class in animation in the semester I spent at art school meant I never produced anything.
Fastforward ten years and I made a radio sketch into an animation called the Pygmy Shrew, attached it to an email as an exe file, and it went crazy. I was suddenly aware of the possibilities of web animation. It led on indirectly to me meeting Roger Moore to record his voice in Monte Carlo, to do an animation of him. Come to think of it, that was the high point of my animation career actually, when it was still a hobby...