America is dead, play it off Keyboard Cat.

I miss when tech entrepreneurs just wanted to get rich and retire young instead of becoming real life James Bond villains. Tom Anderson got a generation to learn HTML, got Rupert Murdoch to hand over $580mil for a social network that'd be dead within a few years, then had the decency to peace out and travel the world enjoying his photography hobby. No evil schemes. No fascism. Just pretty pictures.

The joys of learning HTML to impress your high school crush with autoplay music on your MySpace profile...

It's borderline difficult to live day to day knowing what's going on at every moment.

You know how millennials and Gen z can't even image working one job that's minimum wage to buy a house and support a family.

Soon the generations after us won't be able to image a fun internet that's not filled with ads and controlled by 5 companies.

You can still watch cat videos, they're just sandwiched in between hell and sadness to keep you scrolling.

cat, im a kitty cat, and dance dance dance and dance dance dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaA_cs4WZHM

I really miss that era of the internet.. Myspace was fun and everybody's, typically awful, profile had so much character. Felt like you really got to know the people you hung out with on there. I'll never forgive my shitty friend for convincing me to switch to Facebook lol

I lost the music I made in college to the MySpace database loss/crash/whatever.

Upside: the music I made in college is forever lost.

Long before anyone had a PCs or servers beefy enough for internet video, we still had tiny gifs. And before that, we all just had our own websites all over the web which you could make entirely your own, for free or for cheap. And it was awesome. <blink> tags everywhere!

Filtering Youtube by 12+ years ago is a wild ride.

‼️ OMG, I just remembered. SpaceHey.

I miss the old internet

The good old days of: "cat, i'm a kitty cat and i dance dance dance and i dance dance dance"

The internet

"I can do both"

I can hear the music just by seeing the picture.

To be fair, it's probably not the same, but there is Spacehey. It is described as a modern Myspace. Haven't logged in to mine for a while since I still haven't learned how to make a profile theme thing, but it's pretty fun (coming from someone who was never there for the Myspace revolution).

I left reddit for lemmy and now lemmy is just the same people complaining about the same stuff. What happened to cat pics, pirates, and robots?

The internet was actually for porn

https://youtu.be/b_zAlVv73HI

I remember making a myspace page because a girl I had a crush on had one.

Honestly being on here, pixelfed and mastodon kinda is capturing that old internet energy for me. I’m hopefully to see these spaces grow and am going to do my part to keep spreading awareness.

If MySpace hadn't gone away, it would just be like Facebook is now anyway.

Rippers Keyboard Cat

Tom said he was my friend, but did he offer to help when I was moving to a new apartment?

One of my earliest experiences with the Internet was seeing a picture of a country girl in cowboy boots with a carrot up her ass and an ear of corn stretching her pussy. It was 1991. I also played bridge with people in Asia in the middle of the night.