The History* of Flash:

Some kid sitting in his classroom drawing stick dude fighting to the death suddenly realizes... he could be doing far more with his life... Then he learned FLASH, and his stick dudes SHOT and MASSACRED each other for ALL OTHERS to witness over te' INTERNETS-- his life was COMPLETE !!!!

(Boredom + Imagination = Stick Dudes ;
Boredom + Imagination x 10^Internets = FLASH)

*I'm sure it went something like this!

[Note: The Picture is of an 'Ancient Stick Cave Drawing' (or at least according to Wikipedia).]