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2Advanced Studios v2 flash website in 2001

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A capture of the futuristic Flash-based website created by 2Advanced Studios in 2001, showcasing the era's elaborate web design.

Eric Jordan, Tony Novak and John Carrol founded a digital creative agency called 2Advanced Studios. The agency was renowned for its innovative, high-end design using Flash technology. In the field of web design, the 2Advanced Studio received many prestigious awards. 2Advanced Studios v2 website 2001 in WebDesignMuseum.org webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/2advanced-studios-v2-2001 Twitter: twitter.com/WebDesignMuseum Instagram: instagram.com/webdesignmuseum Look at the other most creative flash websites in WebDesignMuseum.org webdesignmuseum.org/flash-websites Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/c/webdesignmuseum

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What people say. Recommended as a classic example of the highly animated, futuristic Flash-based web design of the early 2000s.

dkhon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?”

Oh yeah, 2A forever. Found them in 1999-2000 (when I was 12 or 13 and first learning to code and such) and it was positively mind-blowing. v2 ( link to this video ) and v3 ( link ) made me rethink everything, and I promptly switched focus to learning webdev over coding desktop apps. Those Flash days were fun, between 2A, Balthaser, DerBauer, etc. But yeah, 2A made me completely rethink media and interaction. Go figure, I work on interactive web stuff and film stuff geared towards the web. I can still hear the first piece of music that would play in the background of 2A v2 in my head 20+ years later, and still occasionally listen to Eric's trance mixes on Soundcloud.

jaimex2on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?”

Back in the days of Flash the web was full of interesting and weird UIs with tons of art and animation. ie - link link to this video Now its just the same boring Bootstrap/Material design cookie cutter crap everywhere.

rco8786on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework”

This reminds me of 2advanced studios way back when. They built crazy futuristic flash GUIs like this. Here's one from 2001: link to this video

MontyCarloHallon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Pynchon in Public Day”

…plementation. The earliest I remember hearing debates on tables vs. CSS was circa 2003/2004. In 2001, a more plausible argument would be over whether it's a good idea to implement a site completely in Macromedia Flash, and whether that was the future of web development. There were some pretty astounding Flash websites back then, e.g. link link link to this video link Indeed, 2advanced was notorious for throwing huge warehouse raves, during which the CEO would DJ. Sounds like something ripped straight from the pages of Bleeding Edge.…