Shockwave Flash Crash ((install)) (2027)

Elena, a digital archivist for the Museum of Forgotten Code, sits alone in her dimly lit studio. Her mission tonight is a final backup. The last known copy of The Tower of Goat , a notoriously broken 2006 Flash game, is on a decrepit thumb drive. Its creator, a legendary user named "GoatPunk," had encoded a bizarre, self-aware bug into the game. It didn’t break the game; it made it haunt you. Players reported the goat’s sprite would occasionally turn its head to stare at the screen. A few claimed the game learned their playstyle and mocked their failures.

The "Shockwave Flash Crash" didn't kill Flash overnight, but it signaled the beginning of the end. Two major shifts happened in the early 2010s: shockwave flash crash