The best social network launched 20 years ago today.
. For the rest of that decade, it was the world's biggest social networking site.
Many of us do, though, remember picking our Top 8s and decorating our MySpace pages with as many flashing lights as possible. So here are the five main things we miss about the original social network...MySpace was the best way to feel close to bands I loved. Of course, I didn’t painstakingly craft my MySpace profile with romance in mind, either. Far from it. When MySpace arrived, I was working as a music journalist and it was the platform’s possibilities as a showcase for new talent that most excited me and my colleagues. Arctic Monkeys famously got their big break via demos uploaded to a MySpace fan page, and I spent many hours trawling the site for the next big thing.
This was the early 2000s, when I didn’t know a lot about Web 1.0 or coding, and I wasn’t going to buy a MySpace layout, so I eventually worked out the basic prompts needed to hide my top eight friends as well as to add in some funky widgets that made my comments become visible again using JavaScript or Flash. Amelia Schwanke, Senior Editor for Home Entertainment Many people, my colleagues included, remember discovering great bands and exciting new music on MySpace.