To be fair those things you couldn&#x27;t do in the web, like intros and text fly-ins, were really obnoxious. That&#x27;s what got Flash a lot of hate (and rightly so).<p>What made Flash great were games, video, real-time communication (e.g. web chats) and cartoons. Flash was great as its own medium, even if embedded in the web (not <i>replacing</i> it).<p>Shoehorning Flash into the web medium was a mistake, just as obnoxious as now is hijacking the scroll or adding thousands of fade-ins in HTML5 (which fortunately as a fad seems to be dying).