What Killed MySpace? (It Wasn't Facebook)

A lot of people think that Facebook ended MySpace but in reality, this isn't the case. In this video we'll go back to the 2000's to find out what really ended MySpace.
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[@ColdFusion]

My equally interesting video about Facebook: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2ethZSIg7mBZsU

[@Chordonblue]

I also thought that myspace's decision to allow users TOTAL control over the colors and pictures of their page's interface as a BAD idea. You'd be cruising along, and then, BAM! Pink and Black are thrown up on a site with an almost unreadable font. The kids probably thought it was 'cool', but adults certainly weren't impressed. It may seem limiting, but Facebook's strict adhesion to a standard interface made the site easier to navigate, and its division of Events, News Feeds, Watch Parties, and Marketplace suggests that 'organization' is not a bad word after all. As a result, Facebook seemed more 'grown up', a more refined site that even 'old people' might use. Of course, as soon as the older folks piled on, younger ones went to find a new place to escape. Is that a bad thing for Facebook. Not really. Having a common place for relatives, old high school and/or work friends to share their lives is totally sustainable. Let the kids have TikTok...

[@hix1013]

What about Bebo ?

[@wisdomandchaos]

They Should Have sold when It Was Worth 12 Billion 4 Sure..! *

[@lipkangee2383]

There had some misleading information, Friendster is not founded in Malaysia, just currently own by someone in Malaysia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendster here is the information.

[@DJCD92162095]

Do a video about Facebook Scam ads! I got scammed by Mosistar, which is a Facebook popup ads!

[@rvx5818]

I actually miss Myspace. I liked how you could customize your page and decorate it!

[@user-gh7ks6fs7f]

Runa Belbin yeah me too from 05-08 it was cool ...

[@tio2hawks576]

4realz

[@sburton015]

Myspace does still seem to exist, although its most likely very different now than it was in 2006 or 2007. I think I even remember AOL instant messanger also having where you could put a little customized profile page of yourself, thats actually what I used before Facebook which I joined in 2008. AIM I remember using before that as far back as 2001.

[@user-bz9sj8mh5d]

That was the worst aspect of it. All it did was to show to the world how shitty a person's tastes were.

[@AFterMath-ld1vr]

You've been eating too many member berries; the customization is what made it impossible for someone's granny or aunt to join Myspace. That may not mean much to you but that put a ceiling on who would have ultimately joined Myspace. Meaning less revenue. I bet those old grannies and aunts have a Facebook today though.

[@bishyaler]

I like how myspace didn't activate my phone's mic to spy on my conversations to target ads at me :)

[@jormungandrworldserpent6437]

bishyaler it would have if it had the technology

[@TheAnonyy]

Lol not yet

[@ThePolomoloQC]

Nah, Facebook don't listen to what you say for adds. There's algorithm that depending on what you like, do, search, look, how long, it can predict, with your own collected data, pretty much anything you will be thinking at certain points. Look up the full documentary on Cambridge Analytica, it'll open your mind to what you actually share.

[@arlobennett8504]

Then don't use Facebook.

[@burnout9069]

@@arlobennett8504 Thats hardly the point. Nor would it stop, even remotely the tactics used by social media platforms to spy and collect data. You may as well have said. Dont use the Internet period. But, it doesn't stop there either. Whats more important is what or how, later this data could be used with out consent.

[@rickytorres9379]

Best thing about MySpace was Tom… didn’t corrupt the platform, didn’t sell any private info to advertisers , just sold the company and secured his bag. Good on you Tom

[@Brandon-bc5um]

To be fair, I think for Mark, it was along the lines of "Turn your platform into this or you will never be capable of surpassing myspace and you guys will shutdown in the next 5 years" so they started working with the CIA or whatever it is they do

[@DieEineMieze]

Back then, selling user data wasn't a really big thing since nobody could have foreseen how important data will become

[@5489458]

@@DieEineMieze Maybe Tom saw it, because no one would sell a company that is neck on neck with the same thing, unless they feel it's worthless.

[@Dubstepper]

@Phantom of the Oprah what

[@Serena-sv1fv]

not to mention he was everyone friend so everyone had at least one friend on myspace..

[@Chasing-the-outdoors]

What people don’t seem to recall is one day everybody was just gone from MySpace. I don’t remember any specific point where the UX was bad or anything, just a sudden ghost town. We didn’t really like Facebook, it was boring and bland, but that’s where our friends were so we switched over.

[@carlosrome87]

Totally on point dude .

[@anomalyarcane8771]

Exactly!!! I couldn't stand FB but I went through the same thing- it was like we were hypnotized into doing it....

[@MicklowFilms]

Yeah ill never understand the big craze over Facebook. Everyone migrated to Facebook and I had no choice but to abandon ship. Myspace was so much better and you could customize your page!

[@anomalyarcane8771]

@@MicklowFilms this is why I really hope Spacehey takes off, someone essentially made a retro myspace clone that works in exactly the same way

[@simplysavyyy]

I remember in 2009 that all my friends moved over there I still hate it to this day.

[@ColdFusion]

So KZbin got back to me and said that this video didn't violate their guidelines. They'd made a mistake... Anyways, the MySpace video is back, enjoy guys!

[@pompey333]

No relation

[@arend3669]

ColdFusion wow great algorythm... glad It's back up!!

[@bradleyisraw]

Thankfully! I was wondering where it went...never got a chance to watch lol

[@HighCarbDiabeticV]

Good news, keep the videos up :)

[@FireEye-zd4fm]

Did you get the ad revenue for the views before youtube took it down ? Otherwise I'll watch it again.

[@hypno_bunny]

Myspace just had so much personality. You could really get a feel for people by visiting their page.

[@tomhill3248]

SAY, seems to me like a website that let's someone customize their page as they please is in demand. Maybe something Designed from the ground up to be a positive user experience. Possibly with the ability to use it as a nexus for all other sites. KZbin, Newgrounds, Patreon. Hmmm, but how to fund it. ....Hmmm....How do you feel about free to play games? If the experience was good enough would you pay for a superior social media site?

[@NostalgiCrazy]

It's the same with tumblr, but sadly the ownership changed there too and it's probably in it's final days.

[@tomhill3248]

@@NostalgiCrazy Now everyone from tumblr hangs out on Newgrounds. It has been an...interesting, migration to watch.

[@NostalgiCrazy]

@@tomhill3248 Never heard of it 🤔 *Googles*

[@tomhill3248]

@@NostalgiCrazy New grounds is neat. But I hope you like edgy humor. I recommend the perfect kirby series.

[@andrewbuhman1066]

It's weird hearing people talk with nostalgia about the early 2000s. It makes me feel older than dirt...

[@IceBreakBottle]

It's no different to hearing people talk about the 80's in the 2000's. What of it?

[@andrewbuhman1066]

@@IceBreakBottle How old are you?

[@IceBreakBottle]

@@andrewbuhman1066 58. You're only a young fella my friend.

[@andrewbuhman1066]

@@IceBreakBottle No I am not, and I refuse to be classified by your opinion. Good day.

[@IceBreakBottle]

@@andrewbuhman1066 Well you come across as being rather immature

[@jacobyrassilon]

Looking forward to "What killed Twitter" and "What killed Facebook", and of course the timeless classic, "What killed Google"

[@hailtothevic]

I don't see Google dying, at least not in our lifetime (assuming you're not in your 50s+). Facebook and Twitter are on life support and I'd be happy to pull the plug

[@darthsidious6380]

“What killed Capitalism” next please

[@BoxLaneProductions]

@@hailtothevic imagine owning Google (youtube) and Facebook shares knowing that Twitters being pulled up on being filled with bots and burning the books, first you'd quietly sell them and they'd collapse under lawsuits

[@giggleschad1484]

@@darthsidious6380 please no, it's either capitalism or communism at this point. I'll take capitalism over being oppressed and starved. Lol

[@adotintheshark4848]

Especially Facebutt. They deserve to fail.

[@jerryhamer]

My fav thing about MySpace was having your favorite song being played when you got to your page

[@Hotobu]

That was the worst

[@user-nh7my6gg5b]

When they got rid of that i left!

[@SalandFindles]

@@Hotobu I hated that shit. I got tired of manually hitting pause or stop every time I went to someone's page.

[@jarifmanx]

It did kind of grow old hearing the same song over and over. I always changed my song about every 2 weeks. Most of my friends changed their profile song regularly as well. The best was when you remembered a forgotten favorite of you and your friends and posted it before anyone else did. My friends and I were always trying to remember songs. Always like, "Forgot all about this! I loved this song!!!"

[@demontabaker5744]

Kris Hammer yeah that was the ish

[@frang340]

Myspace never played with our privacy or treated us like sh@t and we turned our backs on it :(

[@robot6871]

It was way better. It hardly even ever censored posts. but it was who Rupert Murdoch bought it and killed it.

[@spicecrop]

It would have happened eventually. That's why I say fuck Social Meda in general. Even youtube has gone down the shitter. People are going to leave youtube if they don't stop all the content censorship and demonitization.

[@redevous]

Crim Sin lets create it then 😏

[@queenq6080]

Fran G I left MySpace for Facebook because all of my friends left me at MySpace 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@mdgamble]

Oh little do you know what they did with your data..... the time was different too, the capabilities were ‘t there.

[@alfonzo9289]

MySpace was and still is the best social media platform. On top of that it taught people the basics of coding.

[@justinharris8698]

Copy and pasting was not coding

[@GeometricPidgeon]

@@justinharris8698 programmers copy and paste all the time. Why reinvent the wheel.

[@redeyejedi4400]

@@GeometricPidgeon this is true lol

[@IceBreakBottle]

@@justinharris8698 You obviously don't code.

[@flowerhobi1673]

Imagine the alternate universe where Facebook was actually bought out by MySpace , what a world it would have been

[@velshock]

Better

[@DannyConeHeadOnceLer]

A way better place

[@kenlen8029]

Nah it would have turned into exactly what Facebook is but worse. Murdoch wants complete control, both political and financial.

[@whiteyfisk9769]

The NSA invested heavily in Facebook, they wouldve just took over Myspace instead. Tyranny will never end until we make it. Theyre entrenched too deep to simply run from it

[@Brandon-bc5um]

I dont think zucc or fb is really responsible for what fb became, though. Whoever armed themselves with fb wouldve just armed themselves with myspace instead, and THAT would be the platform that currently stalks us, blocks us from making any comments, and makes endless ad revenue off our data, etc.

[@Cartier_specialist]

I'm looking forward to the day I watch the video titled "The Rise and Fall of Facebook".

[@ClassADriver]

ghogue61 Suckerberg zionistburg is a POS

[@WuBloodKin09]

Stay tuned....

[@shadwell749]

Nah never happen.Housewives and little girls are addicted to bragging about food on there.

[@Spyder8561]

Or... "How Facebook conquered the world."

[@ernestocastaneda1335]

Yes, it can't come fast enough, lame ass, mass surveillance ass BS!

[@RE2LeonS]

I was actually able to log into my MySpace a couple months ago after years of being gone. All my friends were still on there, it's so eerie to see everyone's default photo the same as the last time I had seen it years ago. Like a virtual graveyard of mid-2000 memories. Good times...

[@ditodevice1950]

Ok milenial

[@JainEhren]

Ahh fuck, I shouldn't have looked at mine.

[@lupegaehring2362]

I do not want to ever see my old MySpace...

[@HeatherHolt]

RE2LeonS really? Mine is gone and has been since they went down years ago and then when they came back it’s just empty. No friends or any of my old content. Sad, id like to have all those cringey memories back.

[@officialWWM]

How the hell you remember your password?

[@jdbb3gotskills]

It’s crazy to think MySpace died before most people and teens had smart phone apps. I never downloaded a MySpace app. Even though MySpace was my first social media site I ever joined.

[@Brandon-bc5um]

Trust me, you didnt miss anything LOL . Even the fb app was atrocious back then, if they even had one.

[@BlasianBobbi215]

I ditched Facebook the moment my mom, and other relatives over the age of 50, started sending me friends request, and they was messaging me about what I was posting. There’s a growing number of us out there that don’t mess with Facebook, and MySpace has a chance right now to rise from the ashes, by not being like Facebook.

[@seexzavierfilms]

you're absolutely right. family uses Facebook to spy and snitch on you.

[@DblTap317]

Yea that's interesting I felt the same way .... FB was for my parents then Myspace died and now my kids think FB is for me and Insta/TikTok/Snap is for them... Ig I could have moved on but I stayed with FB as it was leftover from my time and I never liked it. I never had my own thing.

[@chongxina8288]

I’m just done with the concept. I don’t need to know what Billy from school is doing and I don’t need any crazy ex’s looking me up. I feel like a lot of people just want a private life with no drama these days. Too much drama and negativity on those things. Anyone still using fb is probably an ahole. 😝 It’s just all so invasive.

[@apinakapina]

One of the problems in this day and age is the competition from everywhere, from opensource platforms to KZbin comments to networks for work use. Myspace still commands some brand recognition, but it's a mixed bag. Some remember the crappy interface, and some others the moral panic. I'd like a network that's reasonably popular, and not controlled by absolute bastards like Zuc. I did try several contenders back in the day, but most of them failed on some fundamental level by being one-trick gimmick play. The one I really liked got acquired by fucking Google, poorly reimplemented on their cloud platform, and eventually just killed.

[@emmanueloluga9770]

@@apinakapina "competition is everywhere" is where the problem lies.

[@byteresistor]

When MySpace died, I lost my only friend. His name was Tom.

[@jamesmiller2521]

Jeez

[@charlesday9850]

Women in underwear are awesome I dont understand. Now all the girls wear leggings so you can literally see everything. I feel like I'm at a strip club every day just in public.. hope the legging trend doesnt go away

[@Abdul-nf2wy]

lol bad on you nigga

[@illestinsomnia2668]

Okay kip droordy

[@yesbesorry2775]

@@charlesday9850 I hope you're kidding

[@ricklopez2236]

I met my wife on Myspace. Will forever be grateful to Tom!

[@xddx6545]

Same

[@ihatemickiegee]

xD Dx incidentally, your username perfectly captures my internet persona in the 2000s

[@xddx6545]

@@ihatemickiegee what u use now?

[@Stormy0912]

@@xddx6545 I'm not expert but maybe Mickie Gee?

[@m3revspeedf1]

Wow, that’s awesome.

[@sburton015]

As a matter of fact, I remember when I got my first apartment and I remember my next-door neighbor's son wanted to borrow my computer to check his MySpace. This was back like in March of 2006. I also remember using MySpace through 2006 and 2007 before joining Facebook in 2008.

[@Brandon-bc5um]

oh man. the good old days of "Can I use your guys computer to check my myspace real quick?"

[@SeanHollingsworth]

Myspace used to have the single largest music library of any company on the planet. I didn't know this until 2012 when I met with their director of data center operations; their data centers were awesome. I'm still connected to several of the data center alums, as they are all with other companies now, and are experts in their field.

[@MattaLac1987]

could you recover some old music i made. circa 2009

[@SeanHollingsworth]

@@MattaLac1987 Nobody will be able to recover the missing music library from MySpace. The exact physical storage hardware that used to have all of their music has long since been shredded. Since MySpace had switched ownership a few times, the newer datacenter management team(s) likely didn't know what they had. They obviously didn't migrate everything successfully. Sad, really. . . And we all think that what goes onto the internet stays there forever. . .. However, It too, can vanish into thin air completely with absolutely zero evidence that it ever existed in the first place.

[@m3revspeedf1]

The late 90’s and early 00’s was such an amazing time.

[@CellarDoorx06]

So true. The internet truly sucks nowadays. The days of early chatrooms and the like were so great. I met so many amazing people, a couple of which I still speak to this day.

[@DG-dq7ei]

Not really

[@teenherofilms]

m3revspeed The 1890s was the real amazing time before they invented all this bullshit

[@dr.vonslifeinvesting6485]

Yep loved yahoo chat rooms, met a lot of people and one I still talk to from time to time although we never met in person.

[@queenchiomaofficial]

m3revspeed exactly! So true!

[@latinourbano]

Myspace was way better...you could actually talk and meet new people without restrictions, customise your page, share your music, I was even friends with artist before they became famous. Your mom or dad did not use it...unlike facebook were everyone uses it

[@zdzichus.3264]

if you have got something to hide, pls do not use SOCIAL networks sites... And "without restrictions", you say? Interesting, what restrictions you find so harmfull and inconvenient?

[@s.f6851]

@@zdzichus.3264 For me I have nothing to hide, but having my mom and my closed minded relatives over there judging every move that I do (my profile picture, what I post etc.) is a pain in the ass.

[@Rckstrroma5]

Me too even friends with famous people

[@billybobscat6233]

Truer Words Have Never Been Spoken My Friend. I Don't Even Need to post now because you literally said EXACTLY What I feel.

[@irreplaceablegroguonlysawm3807]

So true I understand exactly like God forbid grandma see you in a tank top that says bitch lasagna now mom knows who tells dad who now tells the aunt and now all ur comments are your family saying how inappropriate that is and just total cringe (just my instant vision I had hence I grew up in foster care n group homes so I only have a sister I found years later than I stay close too but I totally understood what he meant why everybody got a make something into nothing it's so wierd ur parents on their sometimes its them that do the embarrassing stuff u dont want people u know to see hence why most peoples friend lists r private

[@sabrinarosario6499]

“Facebook was seen as safer” LOL.

[@daebak7370]

Riiight 😆

[@robsmithracing]

Safer at hiding paedos

[@bbbbbbb51]

Ngl having the background makes me go full conspiracy mode. Government lays out it's investigating Myspace for being unsafe for minors, MSM reports Facebook as "safe" alternative that people are flocking to. The government then steps on Facebook's neck over privacy concerns, & out pop government contracts.

[@Nathan-Explosion]

false Myspace people were peaceful and careing ppl amd dateing was easier and ppl actually cared to be your real friend then people moved to facebook and became Toxic @ss holes plus Facebook been getting bad Reports about privacy issues.

[@Nathan-Explosion]

Gabbriel79 Dude that made no sence what so Ever lmao🙄🤦 the Dude comment is only saying its safe mines more Describeing how its safe and how it use to be.

[@FherKa19]

The fact that we would teach ourselves how to code without even knowing it blows my mind!

[@babydollx2023]

MySpace died out in 2011 when they copied Facebook and got rid of customizing layouts and music players. I miss 2006 and 2007. Customizing your profile was so fun.

[@avalongmail]

The 2000's were a fun decade. the 2010s sucked! Hopefully the 2020's will be like the 2000's again.

[@ffggxfhhvgffhgdtygxyggeyhgfhfg]

Definitely agree and also being able to have people call you with their phone and have the conversation on MySpace at the computer. Customized wall papers backgrounds etc. Wayy better than Fb

[@Danny-xm1pe]

Agreed. When they started copying Facebook is when I left MySpace permanently because there was no point if they were just going to be Facebook Lite instead of being a unique alternative. If I somehow came into possession of ownership of what remains of MySpace, I would push to make MySpace like it was in the 2000s again. With the right marketing, I think that it could be successful given that people are hating Facebook more and more and are beginning to have nostalgia for the MySpace of the 2000s.

[@Danny-xm1pe]

@tsorf 1990s > 2000s > 2010s We seem to be going downhill each new decade; I hope that the 2020s changes that.

[@TheSupart91]

Yea they tried to fix what wasn't broken

[@AAB6432]

My Space was better than Facebook. I miss the early 2000s.

[@roxyfoxyyy7]

chester rockwell awe really? I get nostalgic over 2009 because I was 20 years old with minimum responsibilities 😩 and actually had a summer break

[@calebscomedy11201]

chester rockwell i get nostalgic for 2016 lol

[@fiercediva135]

I was born in the year of 2000s. Best time of my life though.

[@rockkiller124]

Ah yes, I remember my angsty edgy profile page with edgy nu metal music playlist xD

[@ThierryRocksTV]

@@rockkiller124Edgy nu metal is my guilty pleasure I still love it lol

[@DeliciousHotShmoze]

I had an uncle that visited us regularly and used MySpace. I remember the one time he was visiting and showed us his MySpace. The only detail I remember from it was seeing one of his friends’ profiles and instead of a them having a photo of themselves, they had the parental advisory logo that you typically see on music album covers. I thought it was weird and asked why it was there, to which my dad responded “That’s just the picture they used.” In retrospect, that was probably my first exposure to internet culture.

[@ESponge2000]

I always thought MySpace was a different platform not to be compared at ALL with Facebook and today I STILL strongly feel that way. Facebook is for showing off the facade friends circle a teen wants family friends and relatives to see. MySpace was the place where random people who like the same song or common love of something … anything…. Can connect to each other.

[@tcrenshaw2718]

being able to add html into your profile and do a full div overlay was pretty awesome..100% custom design so you could have an actual unique profile not just change the background

[@nebraskacoder]

It's also what made MySpace insecure.

[@swallowedinthesea11]

I riotously enjoyed customising my Myspace background with widgets like music players, surveys etc. using HTML!

[@tlrlml]

@American Patriot Ya, you were all of what 11, maybe 12. Those Playdates must have been intense! Rockin' the sand box, Mondays. Sand the seesaw, Tuesdays. etc. Either that, or they thought you were gay (you know - happy) and wanted to talk boys...

[@tlrlml]

@Luke Robinett You forgot to say... "Get off my lawn!!!" Don't forget to wave your cane around all menacing like, the idiot kids really hate that alot!

[@ihatemickiegee]

Carmen Landrum same!

[@quarlic]

One of the greatest glories of MySpace was that Tom Anderson would never ban you for telling the truth.

[@quarlic]

Garrett Szilard or how about this one? MeWe Network by Sgrouples, Inc. itunes.apple.com/us/app/mewe-network/id918464474?mt=8

[@oceania68]

@@quarlic MeWe is cool.

[@quarlic]

oceania68 It sure is, and I hope all 2 billion Facebook users join it.

[@chrismaloney2913]

He was everyone's friend,man's a saint

[@johnny-becker]

... and he was a friend to everyone, no matter your beliefs.

[@attila7092]

The myspace chat rooms were a total blast. I had so much fun and made a number of friends. It was so addictive that some nights I'd be using till 6 in the morning. A great place to hang out when you have social anxiety

[@M4NA5]

To date my favorite social media platform. I learned so much and discovered so much new music. Good times.

[@memofromessex]

Yeah, the music pages were great. I found so much music. I even spoke to the indie band Grizzly Bear when they were still quite new - I was quite surprised when I saw how big they became.

[@M4NA5]

@@memofromessex I spoke to Alter Bridge about the possibility of them performing at my college festival. Crazy.

[@ripjeffhanneman5838]

My 12 y/o daughter: Facebook is for old people. Me: Good thing I'm on Myspace. Daughter: What's that?

[@detrickpierce8754]

Lol

[@dipsy012]

Lmao

[@Chlove0719]

Next time say xanga! What social media do kids use anyway?

[@steventopper9310]

@@dipsy012 People don't use Myspace anymore.

[@jumbomuffin1316]

Facebook and Twitter is for old people 🤷‍♂️

[@mist8k]

When I fist learnt how to embed a video on to my Myspace profile..... I was so proud of myself. I think it was the john west tuna advert where the guy kicks a bear in the balls.

[@jeff2049]

hey look, an eagle

[@prettypuffprincess]

Honey we were CODING

[@pressrolls]

When did you LEARNT how to spell?

[@georgaseebalack6003]

@@pressrolls lol imagine not knowing that there are more than one way to spell that word. Learnt is still correct, just as learned is.

[@rien3201]

I picked up basic html to build my 1st webpage in those days, it was like wandering into an uncharted path. Love your channel and your works btw, cheers :)

[@jenmdawg]

MySpace really was amazing. It was so nice, mellow and rewarding. It’s also how my SO and I met 20 years ago. I was a huge fan of his band and reached out to me announcing a local show. He passed away last year and while my grief is still intense - mu gratitude is bigger. I have to thank MySpace. FB never paid off - I was an avid user until 2016 when it became an outright shit show. It’s also nice not wasting all that time.

[@mytruthmylife8725]

I agree I literally only keep it to talk to family out of state and get ahold of people that I don't have their number. FB sucks

[@maddieb5787]

I love how all of us that loved myspace and miss it all seem to be around the same age. None of us like FB anymore bc our parents and older aunts and uncles and whatnot are all on there. Twitter seems so impersonal. And I feel too old for TikTok. Lol. I've given up on social media completely. Oh and until I just saw it mentioned so many times in the comments about coding I had totally forgotten how we were able to customize our layouts with the html thing.. I hate it that I don't think I remember how to do it!

[@Brandon-bc5um]

♥

[@lavkjis3968]

5:17 myspace changed my life where i can spend all day in it and do absolutely nothing. pretty much every social network. very accurate.

[@aminoto-3]

Anyone else feel really fkin old listening to the talk of the 2000’s being nostalgic.

[@hydrolito]

Nah I watched motion pictures taken by Thomas Edison and others from before him to remind me how young I am.

[@booksteer7057]

I think either Yale or Harvard issues a document every fall to its professors listing the things which the incoming 18 y.o. freshmen won't have firsthand knowledge of. It's always a shock. I heard one today. When Tom Brady won his first Super Bowl, Patrick Mahomes was in kindergarten. :-/

[@crookedrain771]

That was before this life became Orwellian. I just wanted to skate and play video games back then. Little did we know, we were entering a dark era of social programming. Now we see social media for what it is. I miss the feeling of not giving a shit back in the early 2000s..

[@erikpeterson25]

😁

[@Nik.No.K]

I feel the way I imagine my parents do when they see old pictures and videos of them in like the 80's

[@143bostoncreme6]

I remember when we would rank our friends on my space. If your #1 friend was getting on your nerves you would move them to like #4 😂

[@mangokittyrawr]

I found the real Tom on facebook years later. He told me he is a photographer now. Really cool how he actually messaged me back... great guy.

[@controllerbrain]

I didn't think much of myspace at the time, but looking at how social media sites operate now it was the best one.

[@RMSA190]

Even now i CAN KNOW !!!! I still use MYSPACE every day, and i have my old photo and music back. and i'm from Belgium in EOROPA

[@McPLAYH0USE]

Everything I know about coding stemmed from my use of Myspace. I used to charge other kids in my high school to make their pages for them. I am now a business owner and built both of my websites on my own - Thanks, Tom!!!

[@mariastevens6406]

They need to bring the old MySpace back with updated programming and a few safety features. I miss it.

[@markcasey2517]

Just loving the Aussie content producer. Such an awesome channel!

[@jaywin5373]

My coworker told me that he met his wife on Myspace, they are happily married. I like the customization of background and music.

[@davidjames579]

It did my head in that every time you went onto a page you had to hear whatever shitty music someone had chosen. Had to mute, and then kept forgetting to take it off when I went on KZbin.

[@simonfrancisphotography8856]

It was the customization that killed it! Don't let users design their own pages, they are not good at it 😂

[@Underdog_TCG]

I met my wife on MySpace back in 2009, No clue who added who, but we have been married since 2012, with one kid and very happy.

[@user-cv8qe9ru8c]

The backgrounds were pretty sweet

[@thecherrysviewthecherrysvi3187]

I hated how l Iong it took for the page to load depending on how much was put on a page

[@cennon]

I also remember a whole lot of drama happening if someone was removed from someone's top 8 list.

[@bornwithbsguards]

ahh haha!! I had mine switched every day

[@PaulSpades]

yes, that was a thing! :D god

[@gorrdonstibilj3859]

happy days

[@deedeemerry1295]

not gonna lie, i disowned everyone who did that to me. thinned skinned, yea...but is what it is

[@gorrdonstibilj3859]

@@deedeemerry1295 I think Myspace was bought from the people who work for fb,like here in Slovenia, foreign people are coming,buying our factories etc.,and after a year they shot down,here ,somebody is really organized and they want to destroy everything.We have to unite the love in us collectively.It was so free MS,if you really liked someone it was a peace of cake,now fb if I think deeply started to give us a sense of power in us to judge people by appearance don't even knowing the real true of a person.

[@thatdude8379]

Great video. Very informative and very well put together. The music at the end of the video gives me that feeling that you can't explain.

[@GreenEnvy.]

This has the 2000's feeling like the 90's.

[@andrewgates9333]

Kim Kardashian hosts- vh1's 'the 20-oughts'

[@Comedy-Cult]

Coolest thing about MySpace imo was the music on everyone’s page

[@sonicjet7759]

Myspace used to have free mp3 audio music files you could download :)

[@BruceTheSniper]

LOL, I remember those days..... Hamster Dance would play whenever anyone logged onto my page.

[@helloxonsfan]

The real lesson here is, be careful when a greedy, self-obsessed billionaire buys your social media site. ... Twitter, are you listening???

[@AngelaAlbertina]

The fact that we were coding and some of us didn’t know it.

[@OatmealTheCrazy]

@@user-if1de8pt2j they allowed html/css for your page. It was a bug (a really bad one that hopefully no one with more than 3 days of development experience would make nowadays) turned "feature"

[@haikat4]

@@OatmealTheCrazy Well developers nowadays make bloated trash with illogical user interfaces that spy on you. At least Tom's site was nice and simple.

[@OatmealTheCrazy]

@@haikat4 that's capitalism for ya

[@ARedMotorcycle]

@@OatmealTheCrazy I don't use FB anymore. Best decision I've ever made. But the bright white background that you weren't allow to change was quite annoying. All the pixels on your monitor firing off brightly making you very uneasy was awful. The reason you can't change that background is because Mark Zuckerturd likes the blue and white background for him so he doesn't want anybody to be able to change it. Shows what kind of a narcissist Zuckerturd is. And the false flagging for "hate speech" was bad too.

[@cosmicegg1283]

@@ARedMotorcycle facebook dark mode has been there for some time now

[@juliuscaesart]

Who else was just super content with the AIM days logging on / off / putting up an away message

[@johndoe-tq1rt]

Remember ‘asl’ in the yahoo and AOL chats?

[@deanwinchester3356]

I remember refusing to “conform” and delete my Myspace and make a Facebook in autumn of 2007 because Facebook was “lameeee”. 6 months later, I made one. Lol

[@substance90]

Reminds me of refusing to switch from ICQ to Skype a million years ago 😅

[@discountedfreetrial6382]

Alteast MySpace taught the 10 year old me how to code i had crazy backgrounds and music players everywhere lol

[@joeysn7hvn]

I so forgot about that

[@MaynardOwns]

Code or copy and paste code?

[@CookieeMonstarr666]

@@MaynardOwns Both. I learn HTML from blogging and MySpace. From copy paste i figured which code should be edited etc.

[@d0m2288]

Same here. Although I really got my first taste messing with the source code for games on my TI-83+ graphing calculator a few years before MySpace, but MySpace was my first foray into html and learning about file hosting and how the internet works in general. Fast forward to today and now I'm a software engineer.

[@ralfnuggs165]

I put that I know html on my resumes 😂

[@sl9sl9]

The same thing is happening to Facebook now, people are leaving for other platforms like Instagram and Whatsapp. Oh wait a minute...

[@knightwatch4168]

😂But Zuckerberg isn't stupid that's why he just bought whatsapp and insta🤷🏽‍♂️

[@ryand4533]

Lolololol

[@Stantheman9398]

Soon twitter will probably be next, like they say if you can't beat your competition you buy them before they become to powerful and expensive to overcome

[@Tristin471]

@@Stantheman9398 I HATE Twitter lol

[@commandercaptain4664]

@@Stantheman9398 Twitter is for the olds. Gleepglorp is what's new AAAAAAAAAAAAAND now the olds took that over too...

[@joshwonkim0895]

I was on a vacation in Korea when I created a MySpace in June 2009! It was already in decline. I miss those days when I only had a KZbin and a MySpace.

[@nikispringer3142]

The selling off and over development, the corporation trying to control it and changing the entire platform, forcing us to go somewhere else, is what killed MySpace.

[@andys3035]

I deleted my Facebook. If MySpace were to be revamped, I'd consider going back.

[@andys3035]

@Teh Modest Mouse deleted/canceled/deactivated it. Doesn't matter, it's been deactivated for about 2 years with zero plans to go back.

[@TrashDeviant]

Facebook is horrible. I haven't been on it in over a year and it isn't until after you've been off it for a while that you realize how bad it really is.

[@charleslindeman2169]

Here's something that gave me a chuckle: Last time I used Facebook was in 2012, and I while I was up north in Brisbane I changed all my details, and posted that I would be moving to Malaysia(all my detail changes related to this). I had no plans on doing this, and the laptop I used was retired shortly after. I did move, but to a town about 100kms from my last house. Last year I got an email from Facebook recommending me businesses in the town I where I currently live, which is again another 100kms from the address I had moved to. How the fuck they managed to figure out where I live is a good mystery, it's also fucking terrifying.

[@5T3LTH]

there was a resurgence on myspace 2 years ago, but it was all altright trolls lol

[@carlrest6553]

Charles Lindeman Everything is linked. You yahoos put all your information online in different locations and that information gets colated. Facebook is funded by the CIA which makes matters worse. The Federal clandestine agencies, of which Australia is part of the five eyes intelligence community, have been surveilling you and you volunteered all your info. I hate to say this but you are a zombie sheep who literally gave up your liberty and privacy.

[@Deenique16]

I feel like tumblr is kind of like Myspace now. You have themed blogs with glitter graphics etc. And a certain aesthetic to each blog. Also no one really uses tumblr that much it seems.

[@mgene8093]

NeickhaSuPRA wtf is a tumblr?

[@Blastoise9000]

Huh, so there’s a pattern.

[@MoroccanRose85]

Yeah but they just started censoring Tumblr, but I knew dat would happen because Tumblr was wild as hell.

[@Deenique16]

@@MoroccanRose85 I knew that would happen once they started to get ads back in like 2010 then yahoo got in the picture years ago. The internet in general is wild but once you get a big corporation behind a website it's over.

[@Kaylakoo225]

I wanna get in to tumblr bc i feel like i’d love it I just wouldn’t know where to start lol

[@Mattipedersen]

1:58 - Humorously, every time I watch your videos and the "ColdFusion" Logo is shown on the screen, I can't help but think of "Adobe ColdFusion", as I used to develop with it back in the early 2000s.

[@freshrachpears]

I was in college during 2005-2008 - had both MySpace & Facebook. A key moment for Facebook was when they opened up membership to more than just college students. I remember that distinctly- my 13 yr old little sister sent a friend request to my Facebook- and I was puzzled because up until then, Facebook was just a place to post about one’s college experience. Suddenly cousins I barely knew, a-holes from high school... everyone... was on Facebook. That’s something I was hoping this video would cover.

[@Boredoutofmywits]

Check out thr Facebook video for that

[@Brandon-bc5um]

Yea I'm very curious about the sudden migration. Did they open it to more than students in 2008? because it felt very sudden and nonsensical. I really still doubt thats the main reason of it, but maybe partial explanation as to at least why SOME people started migrating? idk maaaan, very suspicious

[@gangrail]

MySpace killed MySpace when they littered it with ads much like KZbin is heading

[@JohnSuchman]

I hate paying for Red and being hit with in-video manscapes ads lol

[@gangrail]

@@JohnSuchman why I never got red there is no point to getting it

[@BostonBlues]

@@gangrail I've had red for like a year since the pandemic started and haven't seen a single ad, if you watch KZbin more than TV red is definitely worth it I hated being forced to sit through 2 pre rolls

[@mrwang420]

KZbin been there since they startrd advertisements.

[@danielgreaney7178]

People have to make money. Many tech startups never turn a profit.

[@James-bs1vm]

Myspace will always hold a very special place in my heart 💕

[@shaoron3491]

John Doe factuals 💯

[@sobeit1934]

Same

[@mmoriartyy]

I found my birthparents on Myspace at age 12. I was born in1994 in a semi-closed adoption (I was allowed letters, but was not to have contact with my birthmother until I turned 18.) My birthmother lived in Alaska where I was born, and I lived in New Hampshire. All I knew was her name and her job. I remember trying to do my sleuthing when the new specs of the internet started to flourish... I found her, contacted her, (2006?) and she connected me with my birthfather. I met him at 14. She and I still haven't met but I video chatted with her for the first time in 2020 after almost fifteen years of only online and phone correspondence. Man... it's surreal. No one thought about-- no one accounted for-- the internet providing that level of opportunity when I was born. I still think back and just... wow. Without Myspace I might have never found my birth parents. It was so SO strange.

[@mollyjackson4514]

Love the channel bro. I subbed right away. ☺

[@dondavinci2183]

When one friend makes you mad so you change your top 8... Awweee memories :)

[@Rosie82333]

😂😂😂

[@EasyPersuasionTPS]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@NostalgiCrazy]

Exactly lol! And then they eventually allowed a top 50 or something lol.

[@cybernerds]

Damn I forgot about that feature!

[@PurplePinkRed]

Hahahaha! Yes!

[@apachetribeswearealive2313]

Its no longer your Space. Its the Governments Space TRUE STORY !!!!

[@1111mykal]

Mia Mia 😂💀💀😂😂💯

[@OctoCoochi69]

Bro it would be really nice if certain social media absolutely let you customize the background of your page instead of just a banner

[@J.F.331]

MySpace was awesome back in the day. I actually really enjoyed it. I don’t use Facebook anymore. Too many people posting absolutely nothing and too many posts about politics and misinformation.

[@anotheryoutubeaccount5259]

As oposed to?

[@johncmoore416]

I remember learning HTML to "Pimp My Page" Having graphics and music that played the moment your page opened was a wondrous thing at the time. Then it became annoying.

[@letsplaynay9936]

😹😹😹😹

[@cicada.k]

I remember how you could make your cruiser a little avatar too!

[@KNByam]

Yeah the constant changing of the page themes got annoying real quick. lmao

[@juanmccoy3066]

I did the same. I can still code in html today. I didnt even realize it was coding! I just wanted to have a nice page! I miss being able to post things on other ppls pages and share music and even my own tracks. Quite a few rappers and bands became famous using myspace music pages. I used to hate that bug tho, where a band page always had u as "104 year old female" lol but it was fun. I remember a lot of websites dedicated to pre programmed myspace layouts. And u could have a youtube video on ur page too. That was so cool. It was slower but a lot more fun. Fb is not as fun. And way too serious. I cant say SHIT without getting a 30 day ban. I got 7 between october of 2019 and oct of 2020. That is so harmful when u have a job and stuff.... I finally just stopped posting and my facebook just exists to receive messages. And i post my opinions on Parler. Parler is actually cool not as cool as myspace was but check it out. Ppl think its mostly conservatives but thats not true. Lots of gamers and libertarians and youtubers who are sick of being banned and stuff. A lot of good ppl who were demonetized are making come backs too. Theres some iffy characters but hey its free speech. I like it a lot more. Gives me freedom and control of what i see and post. Parler themselves even upvoted several of my posts. Thats pretty cool.

[@dalethelander3781]

@@juanmccoy3066 Yeah, I'm two weeks into a 30-day ban I received two days following a release from 30-day banned camp. You know those spambots that automatically post on certain pages advertising a psychic or someone who'll work a spell to bring your ex back, or pimp Bitcoin? I said to one of those 'bots "F*◇k off, sl♤t" and was IMMEDIATELY given 30 days. For dissing a 'BOT! Seems that since the pandemic, FB has instituted algorithms that key on certain words or combinations of words instead of having mods or sysops decide what is right or wrong; Zuck has laid off so much staff which must make the shareholders giddy with joy. So you have to mind your P's and Q's as you don't know what will cause the blade to fall. Oh, also, if someone reports a comment, it automatically generates a ban. If you appeal, it will be denied within 60 seconds as there's no humans making judgement calls anymore.

[@StansyOSRS]

I miss myspace, designing your profile with html was fun and the musicplayer was great (for that time)

[@1000wastedwords]

My favorite things about it!

[@zonein6964]

@samantha tang Facebook isn't any better

[@Blaze-xu5fu]

We Game woooosh

[@nick56677]

I used ProjectPlaylist and loaded it with all my favorite songs. Miss those days.

[@WestPowerup]

And playin in a band. Recording songs in a studio and fire them up on myspace. and connect with other bands. Best times!

[@samsong24]

I was so sad about how willingly everybody jumped to Facebook. All my friends were just like 'seeya!' and I was so reluctant to let it go. I remember that was the beginning of 2007 and I joined Facebook but I kept my Myspace going for another three years, even though everybody had moved out and it was a lonely little place lol. Myspace was absolute magic. It was more about meeting people from all around the world. Facebook just felt so 'business' from the start. I was so confused as to why I would want the people I go to school and work with every day to be taken home with me, too.

[@lossedatsea1811]

Myspace was the best social media ever. I don't think it will ever get better than Myspace. I loved customizing my profile and reading peoples post and getting excited when I got on somebodies top 8 friends. I miss it.

[@justmeiniowa]

Also, Facebook changed from being for college students/college graduates only to letting everyone sign up. That was also a game changer.

[@Izzy-qf1do]

I want my Photobucket back.

[@cheekclappa69]

its still there

[@rjelstyx4909]

It became trash

[@kaitlynzuniga]

i was a. child during photobucket's prime. when i ask to see old pictures of me (i grew up during the transition from film cameras to digital) half of my pictures are printed, half are lost on photobucket. my mom doesn't remember the password. )-:

[@GrotesqueHyydra]

I logged into mine last month after years! It now charges you to post shit in there which is fine since I won’t ever use it

[@fatimakhatun5788]

GrotesqueHyydra 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@lyricw.9815]

Myspace taught me computer coding on the low with changing my backgrounds and all.....I miss those days....... 😞

[@WuBloodKin09]

Lyric W. FACTS

[@belfam89]

Yessss. And u would go on my page or others and their music of choice would come on... good old days

[@RubyTuesdayJB]

♥

[@prettypuffprincess]

Yes

[@tsdobbi]

HTML isn't a programming language. Its literally just using tags to format display.

[@DevonChampion]

That “Tom” bit at the end was hilarious

[@claireanderson4642]

I'd often wondered what happened to Myspace. Thanks for posting that was really interesting.

[@kalleklp7291]

When I read something like..."What killed Facebook?" I'll cheer out loud.

[@futuristic426]

Instagram

[@jf8188]

Futurepreneur Facebook owns Instagram lol

[@exiaR2x78]

@@jf8188 The current lawsuit facebook is facing from the US is due to them buying Instagram so not sure if he meant that

[@KutWrite]

For me, "The fall of Mark Zuckerberg" will be enough.

[@naldlang4181]

Or what killed Twatter

[@albertmesa7034]

Im waiting for What Killed Facebook!!!

[@kmsharley75]

Oh it's coming...

[@zdzichus.3264]

@@kmsharley75 consciousness and mindfulness of people, who refuse to be just 'users'...

[@audreyelizabeths]

censorship

[@michaelnielsen2038]

Oh they are doing the exact same thing right now :D :D and so is TWITCH :D I fucking love seing them kill themselves with their stupid GREED!! and MicroManagement of political views!! Bye Bye to the TittieStreamers :D they SHOULD be on PornHub and not on Twitch, but I guess we are just moving to Mixer now, since well, they have guidelines that are to be followed, and sofar no preferential treatment of hoebags doing nothing on stream!

[@CookieeMonstarr666]

Facebook kill itself

[@sburton015]

Yep, the reason why MySpace died was that it literally ran out of "Space" and they had to take away most of the social site features.

[@pumpkinpepsi]

I got MySpace in May 2007 when I was 20 so I managed to get thru my teens and school years social media free. I often wonder how different my life would have been if I had had a smartphone and social media in school. I look back at being 12 and fantasizing about releasing albums and designing cover art. I wish I could go back and tell that 12 year old about bandcamp and tell her that she would have many albums. As for MySpace, I didn't leave and delete it until 2011. Until 2010 it was still my favorite social media because you could customize it and have music. Facebook was boring to me. I got Facebook in november of 2007 only because my best friend had been using it for a year or so, and I really didnt like it. I didn't go full facebook until 2011, and now I dont have the app and check it about once a week on the browser, just because I dont live in the country I grew up in so I want to keep in touch with friends. So I "use" it as opposed to enjoy it.

[@danemlive]

I feel like I now want to watch a one hour compilation of 90s/00s news clips talking about technology. Easily the best part of this video.

[@turtleanton6539]

Yuuup

[@boofmcgoof1534]

Right,so hopeful & full of potential lol. What fools >8^)

[@indigoranch]

Easily the cringe-iest.

[@immortalsofar5314]

People went to Facebook because of privacy concerns? Well, that's problem solved, I guess.

[@SEBAS31077]

Got worse

[@minttea1966]

Yea, right!

[@yourhuckleberry2529]

The ultimate irony, amiright? I remember the news shows talking smack about myspace and directing people to a secure alternative called Facebook.

[@allanmolina5094]

@@yourhuckleberry2529 it was all part of the plan

[@burnout9069]

No. ppl believed the propaganda driven by a news cast.. Nothing new in that regard. While Myspace may have been lacking in foreseeing what the population would expect. FB in its early days was no better. My memory of FB was it was complicated to use and just a wast of time. Myspace was still the go to platform. Today, FB still hasn't changed. Its Biz page is still over complected and a F.... around for the simplest of tasks. Not to mention the miss informed information given to tracking info.

[@Matt-cr4vv]

It’s still kinda interesting as a person who used MySpace. MySpace was largely better than Facebook for features. The music from the profile, customizing your background, etc.

[@Redvines69]

I liked how you could search for who in your town had recently been online.

[@cooldbz12mach1padilla]

Imagine Creating something at 18 years old that grows to be worth millions then selling it by age 21 and djust living the dream for the rest of your life.

[@AngelaAlbertina]

18? He looked about 28 in that picture

[@aesthetichershey2690]

@samantha tang you sound like an 12yr watch out for you're language cause you're probably never gonna succeed this much

[@markskyscraper8092]

Yep. The exit plan, who cares if you were Microsoft or not, many tech startups have that exit plan strategy, just sell out and do something else.

[@ARedMotorcycle]

@@aesthetichershey2690 *Your, idiot. If you can't spell or use proper grammar, I doubt you'll succeed much.

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

@@AngelaAlbertina W

[@rogerstephenroth8073]

I remember the classic myspace and i can say it was much better then facebook. What really killed myspace is the redesign and taking away the features which made the user experience fun.

[@emilyreed8946]

And a ton of ads

[@7ten]

100%. If they'd just have done nothing people would have stayed on longer. Ironic right?

[@Beegeezy144]

Facebook was already presenting stiff competition with the slick user interface, but the redesign totally killed MySpace. Plus, everyone was saying that Tom sold MySpace, and without Tom it just wasn't MySpace.

[@rogerstephenroth8073]

@@Beegeezy144 Myspace was much better then Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Whatsapp, KZbin combined

[@RobertNixAlternativeArtist]

I agree the redesign ruined it for me and millions of others-that was a fatal mistake indeed.

[@rairai5114]

What a great case study! Good times when it first started, but yeah, it's a shame it became such an outdated site, and now it's like empty shell of advertisements.

[@danh5637]

I'm really shocked you're not on Lbry.tv yet! I have to keep coming back here only to watch your vids

[@NewYorkBattleCat]

MySpace was in fact the best thing on the internet. They forced us into FB.

[@ployth9000]

you are not forced to use facebook lol

[@i.m.f.agency1797]

You Can Still Use MySpace But Most Of Your'e Friends Wont Be Using It

[@treborironwolfe978]

A lot of people would say *Craigslist* is the best thing on the internet. At least CL has enough sense to stay low and remain in the gutter where it belongs, unlike most other social network platforms ;)

[@traditionalempress6961]

@John Delaney Thanks for the recommendation I now have an account though I’m kinda afraid to meet Internet people,can you give me advice.

[@Downtime_videos]

@@ployth9000 you were you just don’t know it, government colluded with sell out mark cuckerberg for all your where abouts and thoughts that you post daily

[@RobbieSuede13]

If Myspace would come back with the old layout i would join in seconds and start customizing my profile :)

[@indigo_dreamz]

Same! 😊

[@eishagraves6780]

RobbieSuede13 I swear !!

[@youwatch2muchtv]

Yeah, sure.

[@dayswillburn777]

Literally thinking the same thing hah

[@CookieeMonstarr666]

Yeah starts with the layout changed people then leave myspace forever. I bet they were arrogant enough to think their moves was correct.

[@hearanecho]

I remember everyone kept trying to make me get a Facebook and the only ones I knew who had it were old people. The only reason I even went on Facebook at first was because my family wanted me to get on Farmville to take care of their crops. Thinking back on it... sad it was my parent way of calming down after work. Watering fake plants.

[@Fiveash-Art]

😂 What the hell?

[@pparkeroni]

oh wow! i didn't expect to see friendster on this! I remember as a wee child (b.2000) using it, myspace never got that big in my corner of the internet here in south east asia

[@continuitycommentary]

KZbin doing everything they can to become myspace. Aka deleting perfectly fine videos randomly.

[@zoidberg444]

No. They want to get rid of the user generated content and use KZbin to push milquetoast corporate content from the usual suspects we come on here to avoid.

[@continuitycommentary]

I think you are right.

[@ThrottleKitty]

guys guys guys you're both right :)

[@DaveZiffer]

Apparently they're trying to become a TV station, since they call their future "KZbin TV". Apparently they don't grasp that TV went out with the 20th century.

[@DaveZiffer]

And apparently ColdFusion TV also thinks that TV is the future.

[@markc312]

I missed having a MySpace. I liked the fact that I can play music on my page and personally edit my homepage.

[@PublishX]

Thank you for this extremely well edited video!! I was a 11 using a windows ME laptop on MySpace I added Peter Griffin and had family guy as my theme Loved every second on there lol

[@mafiaseargent]

Good for Tom. I'm glad he got out at the right time. I think if Myspace was more focused on the person to person side of the house as opposed to the music it would still be around. Maybe not the biggest one but still a strong competitor. Everyone liked that you could customize your profile.

[@TheHumanSpirit]

MySpace taught us all HTML...thank you, MySpace. Godspeed, Tom : )

[@bradcoats5522]

Not all of us, some copy pasted and ended up with an ad all over there page and couldn't figure out what happened lol I remember people asking me to help them get rid of it because I learned html code to personalize mine completely

[@LostHope84]

I love how everyone mentions html but not css.

[@To-mos]

I learned Javascript...old ass web 1.0 javascript

[@mrshiver3241]

@@LostHope84 i also like how everyone thinks they code because they copy and paste lol

[@syedumarfarooq373]

@@mrshiver3241 that is what 30% coding is

[@FitnessSweets]

When they removed layouts and customization, it went downhill.

[@Smitty_Time_24]

The band I was in at the time got alot of traction from being on MySpace. I wish it had become the giant instead of Facebook.