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Flash video games were popular on the Internet, with portals like Newgrounds, Kongregate, and Armor Games dedicated to hosting Flash-based games. Many Flash games were developed by individuals or groups of friends due to the simplicity of the software. Popular Flash games include Farmville, Alien Hominid, QWOP, Club Penguin, and Dofus.
A browser game is a video game that is played via the internet using a web browser. [1] They are mostly free-to-play and can be single-player or multiplayer. Alternative names for the browser game genre reference their software platform used, with common examples being Flash games, [2] and HTML5 games. [3] [4]
The Flash ( Bartholomew Henry " Barry " Allen) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is the second character known as the Flash, following Jay Garrick. The character first appeared in Showcase #4 (October 1956), created by writer Robert Kanigher and penciler Carmine Infantino.
Kid Flash. Wallace Rudolph West II, or Wally West, was created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino and introduced in The Flash #110 (1959). The character was the nephew of the existing Flash character's girlfriend and later wife, Iris West. During a visit to the Central City police laboratory where Barry Allen worked, the freak accident that ...
Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter who overcame childhood polio and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games. Rudolph competed in the 200-meter dash and won a bronze medal ...
Thomas Charles Fulp (born April 30, 1978) is an American programmer known for creating the website Newgrounds and co-founding the video game company The Behemoth. [1] [2] [3] Fulp has been credited with "changing the landscape of the Internet forever" by kickstarting the browser game scene in the late 1990s, both with the releases of his own ...
Adobe Flash Player. Adobe Flash Player (known in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome as Shockwave Flash) [10] is discontinued [note 1] computer software for viewing multimedia content, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming audio and video content created on the Adobe Flash platform.
Flash mob. A flash mob (or flashmob) [1] is a group of people that assembles suddenly in a public place, performs for a brief time, then quickly disperses, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, and/or artistic expression. [2] [3] [4] Flash mobs may be organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails.