Flashpoint Archive: Community Project Preserving Web Games and Animations
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Summary
Flashpoint Archive is a community-driven digital preservation project focused on saving web-based games and animations from obsolescence. Since December 2017, the project has preserved over 200,000 games and animations across more than a hundred browser plugins and web technologies. The initiative recognizes that internet history and culture are important, and aims to prevent these digital experiences from being lost as web technologies rapidly evolve.
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· 4 pulledFlashpoint Archive is a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.
Internet history and culture is important, and the web is evolving at such a rapid pace that what might be commonplace today could be obsolete tomorrow.
This project is dedicated to preserving as many experiences from these platforms as possible, so that they aren't lost to time.
Since December 2017, over 200,000 games and animations have been preserved across more than a hundred browser plugins and web technologies.
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