How Flash solved the browser chicken and egg problem · Proposed air date:
Flash creators faced a circular adoption problem because designers needed an audience with the player while users needed content before installing it. Macromedia paid Netscape to bundle the player, Microsoft followed, and the audience suddenly expanded from specialists to the mass web.
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