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🧵 The Day MySpace Died

How We Lost 12 Years of Internet History Overnight

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The Orbit and Marta Litson
Apr 15, 2025
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Boy Oh Boy, now this makes me feel old.

MySpace was the wild west of early social media - a chaotic, glitter-covered corner of the internet where your profile song said more about you than your bio, everyone learned HTML without realizing it, and Tom was your first (and most loyal) digital friend. It was part blog, part music venue, part teenage diary… a…

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