And here we all are building back better on the Fediverse/Threadiverse!
You also navigated solely from profile to profile. There was no feed.
Scroll to the bottom of a page and that was it. No more comments, show is over.
Shows not over. We still have 7 more songs in the audio player that automatically plays. Most had a visual player where you could pause, rewind, seek, ect.
A few made the player hidden, autoplay, and on repeat. Still want to hunt down those people from 20+ years ago who did this.
Did anyone here do this?
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Anyone?
What, you don't like Boulevard of Broken Dreams, bro?!
mine was "The Cat Came Back The Very Next Day"
solid banger
Facebook originally had no feed, you had to go look at individual profiles to see what people had going on.
And the day they introduced the news feed, it was a surprise. And one guy I remember was NOT expecting that quietly removing a girl from his “in a relationship with” status would turn into a news feed item broadcast to all their friends “X IS NO LONGER IN A RELATIONSHIP WOTH Y”
Dude, why the hell did you remove me from your Top 8? Unfriend.
Facebook's original feed was chronological, and unproblematic, too
You could make your page what you wanted. You could browse and search it the way you wanted.
Modern platforms do things to you while pretending to do them for you.
Custom CSS, sparkly gifs and flash games.
Don't forget all the teenage girls saying "If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best".
Back before that became a stereotype of immaturity. Pretty sure it became a stereotype because 80% of girls under the age of 22 had this on their profile. If comment upvotes had existed at the time, it would have had universal upvote support.
Then those girls grew up, and we all started mocking those types of phrases. Because everyone looked back and said "well that was stupid!"
Pretty sure many of those girls grew up and that’s now on their facebooks. Thankfully the number of people with it is now like 5% of people instead of 80. Similar to Education: School of Hard Knocks
I wish I could link you to my angelfire website. I mean, I can. It's still there. It's just when I was 14 I put my real name embedded in the website. Which wasn't a big deal in 1998. I cannot imagine doing that today.
But I had a little java script thing that let you pick the background color. Default was blue, but there were like 6 buttons for different colors.
I randomly got the urge to see where my websites were. Turns out Angelfire is still up. Geocities and MySpace are both gone.
Tripod was where I used to host my webpages after GeoCities died. They quietly died sometime in the last few years too.
I later upgraded (downgraded) from the blink and marquee tags and animated gifs. I used to use wordart to make my page header graphics and was using PNG to make the backgrounds transparent before png became fashionable (it was all jpg and gif in 2000). And no one seems to remember that PNG was pronounced ping back then and not the individual letters. Either that or Deitel and Nieto lied to me.
God, I loved Hypnospace Outlaw. Back when the internet was unsearchable and everyone loaded a .mid file to autoplay music on their homepage, marquee-scrolling text, skulls on fire and under construction banners.
Hypnospace Outlaw, Angelfire, Geocities and Neocities.
I miss the cringe web.
I miss the 'not actively trying to steal my soul' web
MySpace did have the Top 8 feature, which was weird and toxic as hell. Rate your favorite friends and family members!
Yeah I really hated when they introduced that feature. People would always say to me, "wHy ArEn'T i In yOuR tOp 8?" Drove me crazy.
Now people don't say anything at all because I'm 37 and don't have friends anymore.
that’s it, you’re # 9 now
Oh man this almost slipped my memory. Top 8 was fire in middle school. The second dagger of a breakup when you got removed.
I didn't use MySpace, but I would imagine people saw others as people posting stuff on a community board at that point. Instead of a detached voice inside their computer.
Except for Tom.
Tom was hangin out on yachts with all his bitches!
........and by that I mean he had a few dogs who happened to be female.
Yeah all my MySpace friends were people I made friends with on forum sites. And we were actually friends that actually spoke and messaged other. Novel concept for 'social' media, I know.
i had a couple tumblr friends like that. truly a different time
I forget how the boards on Myspace worked, but they definitely were there as I remember chatting on them with other freshmen before moving in to college. One of the people even ended up being a close friend and eventual room mate, and this wasn't a small school.
Facebook started really taking off that fall of freshman year and I imagine most that socialization moved there by 07.
MySpace (and a lot of early social media) was about keeping up with what was going on in your friends lives, not screaming into the void and being drowned out by brands and influencers (like I am doing now).
It was the fully HTML customizable pages that did it for me.
Aaand every human need into economic blackmail, let's not forget that.
MySpace wasn't better than Facebook when Facebook first started. There's a reason everyone moved to Facebook, but once Facebook killed its competitors it proceeded to enshitify.
Facebook was cleaner and more organized. The thing we loved so much about Myspace was the CSS hacking and linking in mp3's. But we aged out of that and just wanted to see old school buddies and the status of family members.
And it had a pretty generous photo upload limit too, back in the day
I vaguely recall being disappointed at how limited Facebook was compared to Myspace. I forget the specifics, but it seemed like people posting their stories, art, and music went from normal on Myspace to a rarity on Facebook. Maybe there was a structural reason or maybe it was coincidence... so long ago, back before the world ended in 2012 but nobody noticed.
Might have been the last time a business owner said, "That's enough money for me."
i have stopped saying good bye to people when i’m leaving in favor of a jaunty ‘don’t forget to like and subscribe’
Whats annoying is that is proven to work, ppl do that and see an uptick
well it’s resulted in three giggles and a dude pinching my ass and telling me that he always rings the notification bell.
Hey but at least on my space you could put dick pics up there and get away with it. I mean allegedly of course.
Thats because the era MySpace was created in, and died in.
If myspace was created 10 years later, it'd be the same festering cesspit that facebook was.
There was nothing special about myspace other than the time it was created, before enshitification had really hit the internet.
Idk, we shouldn’t act like MySpace didn’t start getting into doing that though. Everyone doing a L4L, or comment for comment, etc. it was always about ‘oh you want your numbers up? Let’s trade, like for like’.
MySpace was the shit, but we shouldn’t pretend it was perfect.
But also less people didn't used pseudonymous names. Like, are you crazy now? MaryKay@gmail.com and your actual name is Mary Kay, that's just asking for it. They should do their thing and use cool names like BDSMenthusiast2012@proton.com.
I will not make the Fediverse suffer the music I made in college like I did MySpace.
Why not? Are we not good enough for you? 😭
That was the original plan for MySpace though.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eImN9tcqMr0
Back when everyone’s big business idea was get a bunch of users to build an audience with a free service, and then “turn on the ads” to start making money.
Things have definitely changed since then. /s
Not every emotion, mostly fear and anger.
that is one problem among many including extreme right wing troll bot farms and AI generated content
How hard is out to just not buy things? Marketing doesn't work if you don't spend any money.
and the profile customization made geocities aesthetic blush at times.
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