MySpace Destroyed History

MySpace, in a rush to relaunch and rebrand itself, made inaccessible the blogs of all of its users. There could be no movement to preserve this record of the past, as it happened so suddenly. Millions of contributions, critical records of events of a decade or so ago, lost in the blink of an eye. It�s similar to the destruction of something like Penn station: a website that was run by user-generated content, that was a central hub of Internet traffic, and that meant something to multiple millions of people.

Remember MySpace? Before Facebook, there was MySpace: the�world�s most visited social media site between 2005 and 2008. Users created heavily customized pages � wags enjoyed making fun of the garishness of many of them, as opposed to the sterile and standardized world of Facebook � and it was a popular blogging platform. For many young people, only a few years ago, MySpace was the centre of their social world.

So it was a shock when, without warning (even Yahoo! (no fan of history) gives warnings when they shut down their websites), MySpace decided to modernize their website and destroy those blogs along the way. MySpace is all about the new now: launching with a�new cool, funky commercial�by a cult photographer; focusing on�streaming music and mobile applications; and�blanketing television networks�who have young audiences, from Comedy Central to MTV to ESPN.

Let me say this again: MySpace destroyed history.

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In a Rush to Modernize, MySpace Destroyed More History

Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: MILLIGAN, IAN (JUNE 17, 2013), In a Rush to Modernize, MySpace Destroyed More History, Active History, Retrieved on 2015-11-09

Source Material [activehistory.ca]

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