 However, Adobe will continue to develop Adobe Animate, which will focus on supporting web standards such as HTML5 instead of the obsolete Flash format.In the early 2000s, Flash was widely installed on desktop computers, and was commonly used to display interactive web pages, online games, and to playback video and audio content.In 2005, YouTube was founded by former PayPal employees, and it used Flash Player as a means to display compressed video content on the web.