It is now referred to as something quite different. It is also most likely referring to multimedia technology, Adobe Flash, when you see the term Flash on the web. Web developers can add interactively content and incorporate animations into their website with the help of Flash.

Flash is a popular authoring tool that allows users to create animated works that may be saved as. FLV files. It was originally released by Macromedia in 1996, which is used to create vector graphics-based animation programs. Over the next decade, it gained many new features such as full-screen navigation interfaces, resizable file format, simple interactivity in an antialiased, graphic illustrations. Generally, it started as an optional plug-in and a basic animation for the Web browser.