flash is not a standard. it's closed source, so not available everywhere, and unaccessible, unindexable... exactly what the web is not supposed to be.
cf. http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
Sorry no, gnash or swfdec are not there yet, besides, whoever looked at porting them must have noticed they aren't portable despite being opensource, dependancy hell here I come. Just check the never finished BeOS port of gnash. I don't see silverlight being better anytime soon.
At least Java is open now, so it can be ported.
But it's not accessible to blind people for ex.

Why don't they make websites instead ?

I told here many times this was a PSION trademark... the netBook was actually a nice device, appart from the unfinished JVM.

Back not too long ago, in my class we had 3 ORIC Atmos at the back of the room. We used educative software on them, but also we could program them with BASIC. Later on the new teacher switched to Apple IIe or something, they used LOGO also.

It's important to learn how things work, and not take them as black boxen. It's how I went to CS myself. I started using the box, then coding for it, in BASIC. Then I noticed it had a smaller black box inside called microprocessor, and I wanted to learn about it. Then I learnt there were smaller black boxes inside it called transistors. Then I studied electronics.

It's also a good intro for math concepts like functions...

CS definitely is about communication skills. Software is speech. And it's vital to understand if not how it works, at least that it's not magic.

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=rxfzm9dfqBw :D

I do search often here... in BeOS (or Haiku). but usually I search for things that are in the BFS indices, which are maintained automatically from the xattrs. So it's way faster than find. And if I really need I use grep (or TrackerGrep). We now only need something to fill the xattrs for arbitrary files like the mail daemon does for mails. SkyOS ported OpenBFS and added an indexer daemon atop to support full content search.
I still need to see Linux or Vista do it.

Because it might make google work better without having the need to gather user specific datas we don't want it to have ?