Section 02 · 3 pieces
What replaced it
What replaced the plugin is native to the browser rather than bolted onto it: a canvas to draw on, a graphics card to reach, and a compilation target that lets an engine run at close to native speed. The capability went up. The distribution went away.
- 01Canvas, WebGL, and then WebAssemblyThe replacements are native browser features rather than a plugin, which changed the performance ceiling and the distribution model at once.
- 02Why the portal model died with itFlash portals aggregated thousands of small games; nothing in the native stack reproduced that distribution.
- 03The games that came back, and the ones that did notEmulation restored a large share of the archive; the ones that depended on a live server did not come back at all.
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