Web preservationists have been sounding the alarm on Flash for a long time.

Anastasia Salter

Unfortunately Adobe Flash's a lot more difficult than we'd like [ to restore Flash content ], particularly because' Flash' encompasses generations of work and the platform's code complexity grew with every iteration of Adobe's scripting language, i can't say I've seen any news organization make the type of concerted effort that animations, games, and electronic literature communities are to save this history.

Anastasia Salter