As the calendar days tick down, we’re bidding farewell to 2020. Among those things won’t be coming with us into 2021: Adobe Flash.

The web content software was behind a lot of multimedia capabilities when they were first introduced to the internet, playing a huge role in bringing the videos and games that created interactive experience to websites. But as of Dec. 31, Adobe will no longer be supporting it, and browsers like Google Chrome are cutting off access to content in Flash.

But it wasn’t just about bidding old games farewell. In the run-up to the deadline, software product teams had to make moves ahead of time to keep content active. For some still using Flash, the key was shifting all of the content running on Flash to the programming language HTML5.

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