Before Spotify algorithms and corporate podcast networks, the SHOUTcast Flash player was how you found a guy named "DJ Squirrel" playing obscure French synthwave from his bedroom in Ohio.
If you were building a website between 2005 and 2015, there was a 90% chance you needed to answer one specific client question: "How do I get that little music box on my sidebar so people can listen to my radio station?" shoutcast flash player
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="player.swf" width="200" height="200"> <param name="flashvars" value="server=myradio.com&port=8000"> </object> shoutcast flash player