... that's a weird re-writing of history. The vast majority of people on MySpace never made their own webpages, and MySpace wasn't the first "customize my profile hosted on someone's site", as LiveJournal, Xanga, and others came before it.
For another comparison: NewsCorp acquired MySpace in 2005 for $580 million. Six Apart acquired LiveJournal in 2005 for just a few million, and sold it to SUP in 2007 for somewhere around $25 million if I recall correctly.
Disclosure: former Six Apart employee, although several years after the sale of LJ to SUP.
And suddenly, I could comfortably read content again. For me, it was an amazing time, no more eye-hurting colors and fonts, but finally just nicely formatted text. Content was nice, ordered, and chronological. For me, MySpace and similar sites back then were like someone linking foone (sp?) twitter threads. I want the content, but I hate the presentation.
I'm guessing this time was when you were ages 15-25 or thereabouts?
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary.
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary.
Dammit, you got me. I was thinking of that age range exactly, and I'm always a sucker for a simpsons quote.
Though it is undeniable that "web masters" in the mid to late 90s were more willing to try wacky things, even on corporate or political types of sites. There weren't frameworks to keep things reigned in, and it was rarely a full time job, so the fact that it worked at all was enough for most people.