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A corner of the web where anyone could upload a game, the community voted, and you could lose hours flicking through hand-coded animations and wildly unpolished experiments. Flash game sites were the internet's scrappy basement arcade.
One of the internet's first viral megahits: a webcam clip of a New Jersey teenager lip-syncing and flailing joyfully to a Moldovan pop song. Gary Brolsma's "Numa Numa Dance" spread to hundreds of millions of views — and it happened before YouTube even existed.