Fifteen years in the past, on Aug. 1, 2003, a person named Tom Anderson launched one of the vital well-liked social networking websites of its time. Known as MySpace, it went on to earn $800 million in revenue and generated 4.three billion every day web page views in 2008. Eventually, the positioning can be usurped by Facebook as the biggest social networking platform, however from about 2005 to 2009, MySpace was the place to be on the web.
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The website featured straightforward customization choices for profile pages, a spot to weblog your every day ideas, and a piece to listing your high MySpace mates. Besides from mechanically including MySpace co-founder “Tom” as your first pal, the positioning was additionally recognized for its music business presence, the place you may comply with your favourite bands, take heed to their newest singles and see the place they had been touring subsequent.
On its fifteenth anniversary, CNET editors have a look again at our time spent losing away on MySpace. It was the times earlier than Facebook and iPhones actually took off — when many people had been simply getting acquainted with social media in its most fashionable and awkward incarnation.
