ByteDance announced that the Feishu product team and the Doubao product team are being merged into a new Doubao product team. My first reaction to the news was a bit of melancholy — the internet is like a giant steamroller. Digital tenant farmers, exploited by monopoly giants, riding the express train of the times, ready to be thrown off at any moment. In my eyes, all closed-source software and services can have only one final destination: the trash heap of history. The only thing humans truly grow is their inner wisdom; the only thing humans truly possess is their inner emotions.

We all know that Flash hit the self-destruct button years ago — the moment Jobs wrote "Thoughts on Flash" — and began to collapse. I often mourn Flash the technology, and I often think back to how I loved Flash as a kid, taught myself Flash, made friends like Jimo Huoshan, Halley, Vin, KK, YBoy and Sun, and rode the wave of web games. Later, with the arrival of the iPhone, the mobile internet era began, Flash gradually headed for its end, and those old tech friends each moved on to something else.

Though I keep reminding myself, I always quietly forget. What a wondrous thing time is. Traversing the four corners and the heavens and earth In the haze of illusion, I feel you once again — that is a childhood memory, blurred and hard to recall clearly anymore.