And here we all are building back better on the Fediverse/Threadiverse!
How hard is out to just not buy things? Marketing doesn't work if you don't spend any money.
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?
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.
Might have been the last time a business owner said, "That's enough money for me."
I always thought that kind of social media was a recipe for bad times. Alas, most people don't care or think much, so here we are.
Aaand every human need into economic blackmail, let's not forget that.
I will not make the Fediverse suffer the music I made in college like I did MySpace.
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.
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.
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 on 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
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).
MySpace sucked. Thats my hot take. I lived through it, I know how much it sucked. Hence why we all abandoned it ASAP. You know its all true.
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.
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.
MaryKay is a BDSM enthusiast? Mary Kay sounds fun!
I don't know, I don't know her personally, I don't know if she likes the things she does in my imagined persona.
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.
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
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.
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.
I remember mySpace and it kinda sucked. That's not to say things are better today, but it did suck.
Narrator: It did not in fact suck.
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