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Talk about rose-colored glasses and "the good ol' days". All I can remember are the animated gifs flash and spinning around on people's pages...
I feel bad for you then if this is all you remember about Myspace. I met so many cool people in real life I never would have other wise it would be hard to even count.
they should bring back myspace as a millenial containment zone
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Strangely, I kinda see it being the first thing where "everyone must get into". Before that, the web was a mishmash of communities, websites, shops and services. Even instant messengers were way more open and utilitarian, and more like Email: I would use Odigo, Adium or whatever, to use ICQ, AOL, etc. And you just talked with your internet friends. But when MySpace launched, it was a strange situation where you neede…
Funnily enough, my experience is a combination of both yours and the GP’s. MSN Messenger vs AIM was what I perceived as the first big megacorp battle on the internet with ads everywhere and it was the first set of platforms people just had to be on. That’s when the internet went from IRC/BBS/small forum communication for nerds to my non-technical school friends using it. The cool kids (nerds) later just used Pidgin o…
Loud, noisy, fun
I don't want the website back particularly but I would quite like some of the photos taken of me between 2004 and 2006 which no longer exist anywhere
As a MySpace fan, I don't want it back at all. Can we stop this rehashing of memories and come up with something new? Great for its time, but with the way the internet is, it will just turn in to another toxic echo chamber. Next up: Toy Story 7, Andy finds a Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the attic and its missing its 16kb expansion module called Chippy.
they should bring back myspace as a millenial containment zone
> "You could be authentic on MySpace," she says. "Upload raw images, no filters. You could have snot coming out your nose and nobody would judge." Did that have to do with the website or with the culture of the entire internet? Or maybe the entire world? I heard a prediction that ultra low production value (e.g. live streaming in a bathrobe) will become a great community building strategy over the next year or two, b…
When MySpace came out browsers were only able to upload images and not manipulate them with filters like today. Now cameras on devices like the iPhone will auto “enhance” at the system camera layer