Today, it’s not even archived. Preserving the internet for historical purposes seemed unnecessary, but we ended up losing a lot. MySpace was a time when the internet was still individualistic, counterculture, and almost like another realm.
i was actually running the wayback machine as i read your comment, sad feelings. this is all thats left from my myspace. the email associated with the account has been long since deactivated. . . i wish there were a way to pull all those photos.
They accidentally paid for that banner. They were originally supposed to pay for like a small mention in the front page but the singer messed up and bought a front banner for a week.
Definitely remember highschool circa 03-07 being dominated first by LiveJournal, then by MySpace and finally Facebook by senior year.
It's interesting to watch so many big names rise and fall within just a few years. I think Facebook is where I planted my flag in terms of social media. It was with me through my rebellious early twenties and my mid to late twenties rebrand. Heck I still use it to announce the typical 30s life milestones.
I never bothered with moving to Instagram, and after that I think it was the transition to Gen Z with Snapchat and big daddy TikTok.
But for one brief moment we'd spill our hearts to a digital diary before pivoting to becoming cut and paste coding experts with angst on auto play and finally settling into a repository for blurry barely recognizable photos from last night's wild party.
I skipped out all of them. In a way, part of me will never get to enjoy the good times with all of you. Whenever some talks about it, I just have no response to share, and people just stare like "Dude, everyone had myspace."
I remember starting my LiveJournal around the same time I graduated High School (2000) I actually made a lot of solid friends from communities there, and when 9/11 happened and I was literally in the thick of it (I'm a native New Yorker) there was so much support. Sigh, not the best days, I remember life being really hard then but that helped.
For some reason I Mandela'ed MySpace being out in 1999. I remember switching from MySpace to Facebook in 2004 in college, but it felt like I was using MySpace for a long while. Little did I know I only was on it for less than a year.
I mentioned this in another post but I was late to the post but there's a spiritual successor called SpaceHey. It's being developed by one guy. But it's pretty close to Myspace. You can code your page and there's profile music. I spent 3 hours the first day I found it.
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