I don’t know what the first video game I ever played was. I would have been too young to remember. It very likely could have been a Flash game running in a web browser, patiently downloaded over a dialup connection. I got interested in computers at an early age, but it would take me a lot longer to really appreciate what a miracle and nightmare Flash was. Flash was a huge force that enabled many great applications but also loaded huge liabilities on millions of personal computers. Flash set our ...