Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved
A massive community project just rescued a huge chunk of internet history...
Deep Dive
The Flashpoint Archive is a non-profit community project that has preserved over 200,000 web games and animations since 2017, saving them from obsolescence as web technologies like Adobe Flash die. It provides open-source software, including a launcher and proxy, to reliably play the preserved content. Started by BlueMaxima, the effort now involves hundreds of global contributors working to archive interactive web experiences before they are lost forever.
Why It Matters
This prevents the permanent loss of a massive, culturally significant segment of digital history and interactive art.