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I may be an old millennial, but wow I do not like the giant text and frivolous animations everywhere. It's like we're designing bill boards nowadays as standard for the web. Might as well bring back marquee tags and those silly 90s website GIFs.

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RIP Flash-only Web sites, you were just born too early, we had to wait for CSS3 and unsecured AWS buckets to match your stunning beauty and butt-clenching security flaws.

Ol' Gen-Xer here - Oh, we do remember Flash only sites... I remember having to build one or maybe two of them even, of course after trying ultimately in vain to explain to the client just how bad an idea it was. Though this was still in the times before the security issues, before the Adobe years.

\<thousand-yard-stare \/\>

You know how Times Square was in the past: Giant neon texts which flashed on and off, in different colors.

These days Times Square is all about video. Times have changed but the purpose is still the same, make you buy something.

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