MDS.2026.0006
PixelPets Plaza
2008–2020
- Origin
- Browser-based, ad-supported, beloved by an entire homeroom
- Medium
- Adobe Flash (ActionScript 3), 900KB SWF, cookie save data
A virtual pet plaza of the late Flash period. Millions of children fed, groomed, and occasionally neglected their PixelPets between homework assignments. The pets required daily care; the platform they lived on required a browser plugin. Only one of these obligations was honored. When Flash reached end-of-life, the plaza’s gates closed with the pets still inside.
Cause of death
Adobe Flash end-of-life, December 31, 2020. The pets are presumed fed.