If you were online in the early 2000s, chances are you spent hours customizing your profile on MySpace, curating your top eight friends, and carefully selecting the perfect song to autoplay when visitors landed on your page. For many, it was their first foray into social media—a chaotic, glitter-filled playground that feels lightyears away from today’s polished platforms.

 

We took a trip down memory lane to reminisce about MySpace’s heyday. Though the site often had a clunky user experience, its charm lay in its DIY ethos—users essentially became amateur web developers, tweaking HTML and CSS to craft their dream profiles.

 

Sadly, like much of the platform’s history, the content no longer works. A botched 2019 server migration wiped out all uploads before 2016, leaving the site as a nostalgic relic—more like a "read-only museum" than an active social hub.

 

And who could forget Tom Anderson, MySpace’s co-founder and everyone’s first "friend"? His iconic profile picture became an early internet meme and a symbol of simpler times online.

 

While MySpace enjoyed a brief resurgence in the early 2010s as a hub for music, it never reclaimed its former glory. By 2022, the site was effectively dormant, marking the end of an era. Yet, its influence lives on—not just as a stepping stone to platforms like Facebook and Instagram, but as a symbol of a more personal and creative internet.

 

Have any fond (or cringeworthy) MySpace memories? Let us know!