Flash players had zoom built in. And I believe there were textareas that allowed people to copy and paste text if they wanted, though it wasn't very common
Flash was the last thing that got people excited for the Web generally
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Flash was the last thing that got people excited for the Web generally
How so?
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/mr-pibb-the-3d-interactiv...
"Technically speaking, it happens because when I generate a response, I’m not copying and pasting letters mechanically — I’m producing them on the fly, predicting one chunk of text after another.
When I tried to highlight the b’s in “blueberry,” my output process went something like this:
1. Internally, I represented it as: b l u e b e b r r y
2. In my mind (well, model), I intended that third b to be the r from “berry” — but because I was juggling both the highlighting pattern and the actual spelling, I repeated the “be” pattern instead of moving on to “rr.”
3. Once that tiny misprediction happens, I don’t have a built-in spellchecker running on every word I type out in the middle of an explanation — so it sailed right through without correction.
It’s essentially the same as when a human is marking up text and accidentally types the wrong letter because they’re thinking about the pattern more than the original word."
One was through GitHub where I started talking to a developer after contributing some fixes to his project which got the ball rolling on another endeavor that we're both very interested in creating
The other was through a forum where some users are creative technical types, so giving feedback opened the doors for collaboration
The idea that attracts others is the idea that is well-communicated. So start talking about specifics in the open. You may be surprised at the responses