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> then myspace came along and everyone stopped making their own webpages opting instead to customize their profile ... that's a weird re-writing of history. Th
by 0x0000000 5y ago
> then myspace came along and everyone stopped making their own webpages opting instead to customize their profile
... that's a weird re-writing of history. The vast majority of people on MySpace never made their own webpages, and MySpace wasn't the first "customize my profile hosted on someone's site", as LiveJournal, Xanga, and others came before it.
- prpl 5y agonot the first but definitely the largest, probably by two orders of magnitude
- 0x0000000 5y agoI don't think myspace ever had an order of magnitude more users than LiveJournal. Do you have any data to the contrary?
- evanelias 5y agoMySpace was massively larger than LiveJournal. In 2006, MySpace literally became the most visited website in the US, as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace (and I also recall it being mentioned quite a bit at the time). For another comparison: NewsCorp acquired MySpace in 2005 for $580 million. Six Apart acquired LiveJournal in 2005 for just a few million, and sold it to SUP in 2007 for somewhere around $25 million if I recall correctly. Disclosure: former Six Apart employee, although several years after the sale of LJ to SUP.