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I miss myspace
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America is dead, play it off Keyboard Cat.
I don’t know what’s going on here or why that looks like Ron Livingston, but I upvoted it anyways.
it’s a Reddit link…but that’s how far back it goes
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/u1qnr/this_is_to_date_the_only_video_ron_livingston/
it was the ONLY video Ron Livingston uploaded to YouTube. & that’s Ron Livingston’s head icymi and just hanging out
- fails to elaborate
- never uploads again
/end script
But he did post again! 6 years ago telling people to vote
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Back when the internet was just cat videos it was all upvotes always.
It's definitely Ron Livingston. Why... is not our concern.
If you haven’t watched Office Space or Band of Brothers, then go do that.
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issue is it will collapse into neofeudalism, where the Czar Executive Officier of your network city will demand you work 16 hours every day, or he will send you to the wellness farms working 18 hours a day.
"Play me off, Johnny!"
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.
That would have required self-reflection, self-love, and not falling head-first into the absurdities of an Ayn Rand-ripoff who called himself Mencius Moldbug.
He was one of my top 8 friends! True story.
How do get friends?
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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.
With hundreds of flashing ads along the side-bar.
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
MySpace was such a “special” thing. So stupid. But so fun, and dumb. (Or go even further back to geocities, or some yahoo shit.)
It was niche. Then people try to capture that, to mainstream it. Which in a weird way could be justified. But then you end up with Facebook. And then the same thing with Reddit a decade later.
Nice things. Can’t have.
Filtering Youtube by 12+ years ago is a wild ride.
For those curious, just add "before:2010" (replace 2010 with whatever year you want) to your search query.
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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!
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The good old days of: "cat, i'm a kitty cat and i dance dance dance and i dance dance dance"
Damn, I wish I had access to the early internet. What was it like? I didn't even get internet until I immigrated to the US in like around the 2010s, so I had no idea what internet was like before that.
It wasn't commodified nearly to the extent it is now, so a large portion of it existed merely because of people's passion. There were no super sites of information like reddit, so people would create their own websites and forums dedicated to one subject. Forums still had their arguments, but it wasn't nearly as vitriolic as social media is now. Search really, really sucked until Google came along. Slow as balls.
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It's not the early internet, but a lot of websites in the 00s (when I started using it) let you customize your profile. We all had horrible CSS and an autoplay song that only we liked on our Myspace profiles and it was great. Flash was both a buggy mess that could introduce viruses to your computer and an amazing outlet for creativity that I don't think has been replaced. It was a lot less centralized and you were only being tracked across the whole internet by the NSA and not every internet company too.
Edit: I should say that I lose a bit of nostalgia every time I see forum posts from that era though, the casual bigotry was everywhere and so obnoxious
Everything was somewhere in between https://slashdot.org/, https://ytmnd.com/, and 4chan.
The nostalgia is entirely wasted on anyone who lived through 90s internet. It was cool because I was 12 and getting to drink from the information fire hose was a daily adventure. But it had all the same garbage politics, slop content, and horndog users of the modern internet.
The biggest difference between then and now is that Then Internet was considered a kind of counterculture (which meant 90s Reichwing Radio DJ Rush Limbaugh screeching like a stuck pig every time he heard about a new fad or meme he didn't like) while Now Internet has your Rush Limbaugh tier content and your Chinese Rednote apps bumping into one another in the same oversized wave pool.
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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?
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If MySpace hadn't gone away, it would just be like Facebook is now anyway.
It would be worse. The site got bought out by News Corp (FOX's parent company) in 2005.
The site would be some kind of TurningPointUSA / DailyWire right-wing trash factory. Every song on there would be Ben Shapiro rapping or Oliver Anthony releasing the "Rich Men North of Richmond" techno remix.
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Yea we'd just call it nazispace or something
I remember making a myspace page because a girl I had a crush on had one.
Rippers Keyboard Cat
Tom said he was my friend, but did he offer to help when I was moving to a new apartment?
In my wildest dreams as well, I wouldn't have imagined the shit storm that is going on... and that too is amplified by internet which was supposed to be a good thing...
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