Everything ends someday. It might be something we thought we’d move past with the digital age but, even digital requires resource input to keep going and that means it can and will end.
This does not surprise me at all. What were they supposed to do? Flash is dead, which broke most of the games on a site like this anyway. And kids, even young ones, go straight to Fortnite level video gaming these days, not flash sites.
It’s sad for those of us who grew up on this kind of thing, but like many other relics of the past the world moves on to something new. The Internet Archive and Flashpoint Archive will museum whatever functions without a server connection and the rest is lost to history, revered in our memories.
It’s just the nature of things. Like how a mere handful of social media websites today replace an internet once flooded with personal websites and small communities. I’m sure the next Cartoon Network sponsored game will just be a Fortnite event or Metaverse room.
Okay but we do have to realize you’re talking about all of the articles and videos and everything else just gone.
It does not cost a lot of money to keep a website running. They could have archived the flash videos. They could have put up a big banner that said this website will not receive any more updates but we’re keeping this information available to the public for historical purposes.
They could have reached out to archive.org and said hey we want to shut this down but we think people would feel bad about that so how about we’ll give you a nice little donation and you guys can put up an archive link?
There are a lot of options other than just destroying something simply because it provides you no value.