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2003 - 2013
Myspace Classic
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- Birth year
- 2003
- Shutdown year
- 2013
- Lifespan
- 10 years
- Peak era
- 2005-2008
- Company
- Myspace LLC
- Category
- Social Networks
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What Was It?
The original Myspace platform combined customizable profiles, music, blogs, and friend lists. The classic experience was replaced in the 2013 relaunch.
The profile was a place to arrange taste in public. Music, friends, images, and customized presentation could make one page feel very different from the next. Visiting a profile meant encountering a person's choices about how their corner of the web should look and sound.
This entry remembers Myspace's defining social-network era rather than claiming the name disappeared entirely. Its cultural significance lies partly in that expressive profile-making, when maintaining the page itself could be as important as posting a new update.
Things You Probably Forgot
- Top 8 politics
- Profile songs
- Glitter comments
- Custom HTML layouts
- Tom as everyone's first friend
The Story
- 2003 MySpace launched.
- 2005 News Corp acquired it.
- 2008 Facebook overtook it in traffic.
- 2013 The redesigned Myspace replaced the classic platform.
How It Died
The 2013 relaunch replaced the classic social-network platform. This memorial covers that original version, not a shutdown of the Myspace brand.
What Replaced It?
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