People back then used to do some annoying things with their webpages as well. Remember the sites where there would be text following your cursor in a trippy trail intended to boggle the mind? Yeah that was fun
The Flash days were often annoying, but sometimes I would see some really creative stuff. Flash was often just as much about art as functionality. Thankfully though today most developers hate Flash, but I must admit I am posting from a computer that has Flash (the development environment) installed on it. I won't use it though