How The Wild Wild Web Was Lost (And Won)
A few months back, I was told that someone had reinvented - though changed just enough and added a note for anyone seemingly litigious enough to consider doing so to persuade them otherwise - Myspace, but the good version. To say there was a "good" version of Myspace is arguable, at best, especially coming from an incredible introvert such as myself, but in the eyes of modern day social media I think we can all agree that, yes, in fact Myspace was the good guy in the end. More invested in giving its users power over its platform than using them to further a brand, and more interested in giving its users a sense of place instead of a sense of being sold on yet another carefully marketed product pinched from an ever omnipresent and eternally spying algorithm, Myspace was, in essence, the end of the Internet, or at least the internet that was even remotely interested in actually bringing people together. After all, that was forever the promise of the concept, wasn't it? To b
