Those with artistic inclinations (read: insatiable pretensions) learned HTML coding to change the backgrounds on their profile, spending hours crafting the perfect aesthetic from spit, glue, glitter and Microsoft Paint. Or she would if she weren’t pouting so hard. Popular misconception says the youth of today is more narcissistic than ever, but my 17-year-old self would tell you this is rubbish. It was a place to develop your tastes, show off your indie mullet and cultivate a persona you could never quite pull off in the sixth form common room. The site’s initial premise was “a place for friends” – just like Friends Reunited before it, and Facebook after – but for its predominantly teen and young adult user base, MySpace quickly became something very different: a scene. “I’ve discovered this new amazing new singer,” she’d told me, with the palpable glee of knowing about the Next Big Thing even before the radio did. I still remember hearing Smile for the first time, playing on my friend Hannah’s page. MySpace alumni include Arctic Monkeys, Adele, Calvin Harris, Kate Nash, MGMT, Vampire Weekend, Owl City, Bring Me the Horizon and perhaps most notably Lily Allen, who was still updating her page as recently as 2015. People were more interested in searching for their new favourite band than… well, anything else at all.Īnd it propelled some to mainstream stardom. At its peak, in July 2006, it had 100 million global users and even overtook Google as the most visited website in the US. As Vanessa Carlton and Counting Crows once sang: don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?įrom 2005 to 2008, MySpace was the largest social network in the world.
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Not to mention a comprehensive archive of all my mid-noughties haircuts. The company’s official statement confirmed that “any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from MySpace”, which means an estimated 50 million songs from as many as 14 million artists may have just slipped through the cracks of the internet forever.
After a year of promising fixes, the veteran social network you had forgotten existed was forced to confirm that most of it now. In sentences nobody expected to write in 2019: there’s trouble on MySpace, which announced yesterday that it has lost 12 years’ worth of music and content in a botched server migration project.
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