MySpace
More info
- Creator
- Tom Anderson, Chris DeWolfe
- Released
- Owner
- Viant Technology
- Type
- Social network
- Website
- myspace.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
The first mass-popular social network — Tom Anderson, 2003, everyone in the world's first 8 friends. Peaked as the most-visited site in the US in 2006, crushed by Facebook around 2009.
Defined Top 8/Top 12 friend rankings (endless drama), HTML/CSS profile customisation (taught a whole generation of developers the basics), "song on your profile". Bought by News Corp in 2005 for USD 580 million; sold in 2011 for 35 million.
The big 2013 server migration accidentally erased 12 years of user music and photos (~50 million tracks). Still nominally exists as a music-focused site with no cultural relevance.