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What amazing things happened on Myspace?

• xenihn 9y ago
  Tila Tequila and Millionaires
• agumonkey 9y ago
  To me, and I never was a heavy user of either myspace or facebook, was the human lightness of it. It wasn't political, regulated... it wasn't a brick on top of which serious thing should develop.
  • mgummelt 9y ago
    The same could be said of FB early on. It just got bigger.
    • agumonkey 9y ago
      so maybe it was just a byproduct a new fad in our society to reimplement itself on top of the web (social, commercial, ...) which distorded the original thing.
• tomjakubowski 9y ago
  It was an easy way to get "your own" place on the web, and you could edit the HTML/CSS of your Myspace page to some extent. I know a handful of folks who got their start programming by hacking their Myspace pages.
• sjm-lbm 9y ago
  I don't know if this was just an experience that I had, but peak MySpace happened right as I was hitting a point in my life where I really wanted to seek out new music. I found a lot of interesting/local/terrible/excellent music from MySpace band pages back then, and I'm not aware of a platform that I really think recreates the MySpace music experience. Not sure if that was a very universal experience, but it does give you an example.
  • heurist 9y ago
    What do you think is missing from contemporary platforms?
    • mr_spothawk 9y ago
      for my contemporary listening pleasure, if Spotify had chatrooms I would be in them with my best music sharing buds all day. likewise, shared/live-playlist making would be very popular among my friends.
    • confounded 9y ago
      MP3 upload