We rebuilt the Shockwave engine in Rust and WASM to save early 2000s web games (opens in new tab)

Awesome. I miss that era of the web. And people love to hate on these technologies but you don’t see content like that made on top of regular web technologies. The death of things like flash was mostly a transfer of control to Apple and Google’s app platforms.

Of course the top reddit comment is basically a version of bean soup theory at it's best/worst.

Restoring the full range of Shockwave capabilities for a library of legacy games and shorts as vast as the platform that was the heart and soul of the 00s internet? There's no way on earth any one person has experienced it all. And even if you have, well, Water Balloon Drop 3 was extremely fun and surely it's possible to see the relevance of this project to others.