The MySpace Incident and the Ruins of the Web
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- The internet is full to the brim with strange mystery, complex history and a story that has to be seen to be believed. From MySpace's rise, fall and castastrophic 2018 data loss to the cultural phenomenon that was the personal sites of Angelfire and Geocities to the strange paradox of abandoned RUclips videos, let's take a journey through the bizarre and obscure ruins of the web.
== Tracklisting (in order) ==
1. Captain KRB - Hallowed Ground
2. Kevin Macleod - Dances and Dames
3. Sonic CD - Palmtree Panic ‘P’ Mix
4. Earthbound - Battle Against a Weak Opponent
5. Captain KRB - Real
6. PilotRedSky - Polymer
7. Aries Beats - Dreams 2020
8. Lena Raine - Pigstep
9. Lance Conrad - Windless Plains
10. Tortus - Break for the Border
11. Anton Dvořák - String Quartet No. 12
12. PilotRedSky - Leftfield
[ 10/31/2022 - BROADCAST BEGINS ... ]
A quote I've heard that I really like is "the internet is like a perpetually burning Library of Alexandria".
It's a shame that GeoCities didn't archive the sites they hosted. It really was a digital Renaissance that deserved better.
It truly is a tragedy that future generations will be deprived of my six grade musings posted on “Sheneanea’s dope ass website!”
The Archive Team managed to save it all. The entirety of GeoCities is available as a _huge_ torrent, and they're working on integrating it all into the WayBack Machine for easier viewing. GeoCities is safe!
One of the first OTW Open Doors projects was the Geocities Rescue Project. They could only save a tiny percentage of sites though.
There's no financial incentive to archiving GeoCities. Capitalism 🙃
honestly i think self made websites need to make a comeback. id much prefer subscribing to my friends RSS feeds than needing to og into facebook to see whats going on with them, plus they cant be banned
I feel like MySpace was the last era of social media and internet being "fun" . Once Facebook got its hooks in everyone and everything, we opened a new level of ridiculous that none of us saw coming....don't get me wrong, I use the internet for a bunch of stuff, but when I used to hit up MySpace, or friendster, or old RUclips, I felt like I was enjoying myself, now when I hit up the internet for anything, it feels like a trip to Wal-Mart, I just want to get my shit and get out fast as possible.
Web 2.0 is definitely Wal-Mart. Perfect way to put it!
Myspace> Facebook and IG
Yep, exactly.
What a great way to describe it.
Don't forget what happened to MySpace... it became useless and we all jumped to fb. Also, walmart pickup is way better than going into the store
Lately I have been feeling nostalgic for the days when you could surf the web and stumble upon wild things. Now we just have social media apps
Stumbleupon was great too 😅
@@NocturnalDoomagreed 💯
You absolutely still can. I have several hundred tabs open at any given time and most of them are bizarre research rabbitholes and delightful nonsense that could only happen online. Just be curious.
@@binbogami Same here, but let's be honest here: it's much harder than it used to be. Back then you could randomly google anything and be likely to discover all sorts of cool stuff. Now it happens rarely, usually due to something someone more savvy has mentioned either on a social media post, or in a RUclips video. Getting constantly distracted by the algorithms pumping out addictive substanceless 'content' (which may not affect you, but it definitely does most of us) doesn't help, either.
I'm putting in active effort, which wasn't even necessary back then, for only a fraction of the results. I spend WAY more time online now, because I don't have school and can barely work or go outside due to disability, and still only have a fraction of the interesting experiences I used to.
Also, most of those hundreds of open tabs are, in my case, still just RUclips videos, Wikipedia pages, and Reddit threads. If I ever come across some other webpage, it's almost always because I found it indirectly through one of those 3 sources.
I realize everyone says this about everything, but this channel is criminally underrated. Keep it up, the efforts will seriously pay off in time!
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Christ died for your sins and rose on the third day, showing that anyone who trusts in him for salvation, will have everlasting life.
(John 11:25-26) "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?"
(John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
I someone who literally just found their channel today I agree
This channel and OTR are the two channels I feel are genuinely underrated
@@w花bYes, if a crime has been comitted, law enforcement should be involved. I wonder if they can jail ElemntiaYT for hyperbole? 🤔
nice comment im going to copy and paste it on other videos
I actually looked up my old high-school band website a year or two ago. Because one of our band members was into coding and website design at the time, and the website had its own free domain name that he created, none of the music files, photos, or text was lost and I was able to view the website in full, with our old songs from 2004. What a time capsule it was! I did not expect it to still be up and functioning properly today. Although I completely cringed reading our "bios" on the site, it was a hell of a good time reminiscing my high-school years. :)
What’s the site called?
That's really awesome! My school band years predated the WWW but I wish I could see old photos and recordings from those times. Does your friend still run that old site? How did it survive so long?
Link please
You can't comment this and not give us the sauce
7 month update NOW
After watching RUclips content slide into the toilet of banality and click-bait douchebaggery, I'm happy to see someone still keeping the spirit of old RUclips alive.
The research is top notch and the editing is _wild_
Wish I could do that...
The irony of your comment about YT, is that your only getting to see this quality content because of the changes YT made.......
Which is totally opposite of your critique of yt.
@@masstv9052 I'm not criticizing RUclips, I'm criticizing the many creators who have sunk to the depths of making TikTok videos and documentaries that say nothing and are over-monetized with ads to get views. As for irony, RUclips's recent algorithm changes do tend to favor the banal.
@@masstv9052*you're
This video came at just the right time. I recently was working on a video about a MySpace music artist myself and came face to face with the data loss. Luckily the guy in question still kept his old music and put it back on Bandcamp, in lossless no less, but it’s still quite a blow to know that so much is forever discarded.
Huh, subbed, seems interesting
I lost so many pictures of my friends and I as kids =[
This comment is 9 months old. It's possible that a baby that was conceived while you were typing this comment, is in the process of being born right now, as I type.
@@ivanruiz2218 💀
There are a lot of bands that I have music for where i wonder if I’m the only person that still has the files.
Damn, this brings back memories. I had a GeoCities page in 1997 and then a MySpace page in 2005. Thank you for this preservation of Internet history.
I have not grown up during the birth or even the initial infancy of the internet. It's hard for me to really get a good grasp on what the early web was like. And I have always been somewhat sad about that fact.
However, watching this video, I feel nostalgia for an era that I have not myself even lived through. I feel that should speak to how well this was put together.
So, to the Captain himself, I give my thanks. This felt like my own little window into a past I am endlessly fascinated by.
Your work is truly inspiring.
Thank you.
Man, I wish i was around for myspace, but at least I was on RUclips from the start, just barely (was 3 years old), one of my first memories is finding weird also Elmo's got a gun crudely animated
There is a name for that feeling but I can't remember it. The name comes from the dictionary of obscure sorrows.
Same. When I was born, online gaming, social networks, etc. had already been established. So early websites from the 90's and 00's still fascinate me. Captain KRB is the perfect channel to find a window into the past (of the internet). What a great RUclipsr.
These are misterious times for us, a lost golden age that we never lived, i hope someday we can live trough a period as great as the 00s on the internet again, we are simmilar, our subscriptions in common say so, Tivvy
I was around at that time. Born in 1990. The best description I can give to you is this.....the best unregulated freedom you can think of. It could also be that I was a teenager at the time social media skyrocketed and RUclips first came online, but really reminiscing on it all, it felt like true freedom and pure creativity. As much as I still have a ton of channels I enjoy here on RUclips, nothing can match the earlier days because people weren't uploading videos intending to make money and/or gets sponsors. They were being random, purely creative, and genuinely funny.
I absolutely loved this video and the overwhelming childhood nostalgia it gave me. Being born in the 90s, I grew up watching the world go from this primitive sort of "wild west" Internet to the Internet that we have today. It's crazy to me how much has happened in my short lifetime and I feel like I've lived in two totally different eras of the world because almost everything has changed since I was little. I have very fond memories of visiting and building my own angelfire websites while just messing around on the family computer, and creating my own super tacky anonymous MySpace page once it came out and reached the mainstream and all my friends had one.
It really did feel like this place of infinite creativity and possibilities where you could truly be whoever you wanted, and you could get lost for hours exploring. I enjoy modern social media but sometimes I just really miss the old look and feel and creative spirit of that early 2000s Internet where everybody was inspired to create their own unique little corner on the web that didn't necessarily have to be connected to your real name/face. This was a super well done video on the topic and it makes me so happy to see more videos being made on this specific topic, especially one that's 30 minutes long! It really made me feel like I was back in the 2000s discovering the Internet all over again.
So many people miss it. It really was something special and I have a feeling that something will come out on line where we can be creative and get lost in the experience again.
It has to happen. Humans are naturally creative and Facebook and everything else currently just can't even touch that which myspace had. I feel like after the world goes through some more craziness someone will rise out of the ashes as far as social media goes, and make something even more amazing than the old media that we can't imagine yet.
I hope so I hope so I hooopee so ...
I know what you mean about living through two totally different eras in one life time. I'm 33. Not much older than you I assume.
I will be 45 next month. To say we know two differnet worlds is an understatement. The changes I have seen in humanity since I was a child are scary. Unfortunately, I believe it is largely a product of the technological and corporate control over our lives now.
The thing that gives me hope is the young people. They seem open minded and unwilling to settle for the status-quo, they might make the difference that we need.
Model 89 here 😅 I totally relate. Thank you for sharing and expressing what I felt while watching ❤
@@SoberIsSexxyagreed. Really hope you’re correct 🤞
its honestly a bit weird how little myspace is mentioned these days, especially considering how much 'good old days' nostalgia exists and the fact that at one point it felt like myspace was the entire internet... its like if reddit just disappeared and no one said shit about it. also ngl i had no idea myspace existed after 2012
I feel like that era of the internet goes ignored. We had habbo too that never gets a mention. People's "good old days" usually begins at facebook
Some people forget that Bolt ever existed. So, there's that.
the late 2000s are only starting to get there
this new intro is really cool!!
It's crazy how quickly things change online. MySpace went from being THE place to being painfully uncool seemingly overnight.
Excellent production value as always. I'm too young to have experienced myspace and knowing more about it is awesome
i still lament the loss of photos i used to have on myspace, it wouldve been so fun to look back on them.
I had some great poetry and journal entries in my blog section. Didn't know myspace was going under. Just logged in one day, and my profile was gone, forever.
I'm really hoping you go viral and your quality of content is finally truly rewarded. I hope you keep making videos until then.
About the video itself, I love that you made such a detailed and elaborate video about the topic of how the web used to be! This is something I'm interested in myself, and I've been working on a personal website and a blog to help recapture a bit of how things used to be. : ]
ruclips.net/video/eatIzqwB2dA/видео.html
Christ died for your sins and rose on the third day, showing that anyone who trusts in him for salvation, will have everlasting life.
(John 11:25-26) "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?"
(John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
No link?
I wish I could revisit all of my Pokémon and DBZ fan sites I created on GeoCities in the late 90s, as well as all the unique MySpace layouts I created for my page circa 2003-2006. I got “MySpace famous” in my area from it, and for years people I met would say “oh from MySpace!”… as an only child who had a PC of my own since 1995, the internet raised me and molded me into who I am today. I miss the wild Wild West era of the World Wide Web.
the loss of the myspace data terrifies me in some way. i have over a decade of data on tumblr on a single blog i started 13 years ago and updated daily. there is so much self expression and fond memories on that blog tracing huge milestones of my early life. i take it far too much for granted that the website and it's data will always be around as long as the internet itself exists. i wish i understood more about how to back up an archive of my blog, and will probably ask the programming engineer i know for help on how to do that. at this point the blog is like a diary or scrap book i would truly like to keep for a long time if possible , even if i stopped using the site
i hope you're able to find out a way to archive it! :D
consider taking screenshots and recordings too, they're always nice to have in case you run into compatability/functional issues in the future
The worst thing about Facebook is it started with self-expressions, stealing users away from MySpace by the added connectivity with old school friends etc. You had a true "wall" where you could arrange and express your identity... Then it slowly took that all away.
This channel’s aesthetics are on point
It always makes me sad to think about the fragility of digital history, specially at large scales...
There’s so much technical data from the mid 00s that’s all just broken links now it’s sad
As a 36 year old who got on the internet at 8 years old in 1995, and had his hands in ALL of this stuff, this is a _very_ well done video. You really nailed it and the editing is incredible. Also, thank you for showing us wiby. I'm going to try to find my Metallica and KoRn and Slipknot fan sites I made. Awesome.
this channel is the 3D (A Fish In Sea) of commentary RUclips
really good but obscure
This was the internet for me, during my teens thru highschool and so on... great video, I love this nostalgia.
I can't believe your channel still hasn't blown up yet. I am pretty confident in saying that you didn't peak with the Bruno Powroznik videos.
Updated that intro. Looks and sounds great man
I recently discovered this channel and it's videos like this that give a warm feeling about posting on the web, it's also fulfilling my need for well made long videos :)
Probably explains why my beloved myspace account went poof one day taking nearly a decade's worth of photographs and artwork with it never to been seen again. Trust me it was like losing my favourite photo albums and trinkets in a house fire.
This is some seriously high quality content, let's hope it gets the attention it deserves :)
holy balls krb
you went above and beyond on this one, both technically and uh... idk how to explain it in exact terms, but some of the language you use here is just beautiful
an excellent video as always
P.S. please don't die to overediting
🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
I literally said "WOO!" out loud when Jason Scott finally came up. That man has done more for internet history than anyone else. He's a legend.
The intro, the video, theme, editing, song choice and everything is great, your channel is INSANE
I remember being introduced to the internet, it all felt comforting to remember a time I would spend 2 hours to a pc watching RUclips videos like nerf wars and such that
Holy shit this production value is incredible
Feels like im watching a documentary made by Netflix or something
Well done
Way better than netflix imo
Thanks for the nostalgia trip. The section on websites of the late 90's and early 00's took me way back.
You talked about them linking to each other; I expected to see a mention of the rise and fall of web rings.
Myspace was my first social media account back in 2007/08. I remember my sister showing me how to use HTML to embed RUclips videos on my profile. It was amazing and I used it for several years
Met my wife on MySpace around 2007/08
Sick new intro!
And thank you for continuing to produce content despite the relatively low views. I always appreciate your outstanding work! Here's hoping one day you blow up, but if not It's great to know you'll still be around guided by your creative spirit!
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Christ died for your sins and rose on the third day, showing that anyone who trusts in him for salvation, will have everlasting life.
(John 11:25-26) "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?"
(John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
I miss internet 1.0 😔 it was such a strange, amazing, and terrifying time. It's scary today too, almost worse in many ways.
I was in grade 6 when we got computers in our school. Our teacher created a chatroom for the class, and everyone made fake names - it was fun trying to figure out who was whom.
We did typing classes with they keyboard dust covers over our hands; I contribute this to my good typing skills today. That and, by end of grade 7, I had my first laptop. This was in 2000. My step-dad works in IT, so we always had computers around. He had his own server, and as kids we could play Unreal Tournament online, but just within our own homes internet server. Such a simpler time.
Im born 1990 so that was my childhood/teens etc. Crazy to see this documented so well. Great content! Loads of love my man!❤❤❤❤
I was in my teens in the 90s and I totally remember Geocities and Angelfire! Me and my friends would haunt the computer lab and email each other (pre-mobile phones). A bunch of us had a personal webpage that connected to our friend’s websites via links. We would have pages dedicated to pictures of each other, have guestbooks that we wanted everyone to sign, and other shenanigans. If you were fancy you’d learn html, or even rip off the JavaScript of another site to create advanced features lol. And I remember how you could link to networks of other websites by adding a button at the bottom of your site that would go randomly to the next page in the chain. All lost to time, tho maybe for the better lol they were so cringy but todays standards 😂
I will try my hardest to make this channel known to more people
Imagine the lament of future historians when discussing how 50 million pieces of contemporary music were lost all at once. It's like the library of Alexandria but with Get Cape Wear Cape Fly and Camel Chamberlain
It brings me great joy to come back to this video months later, when you said your videos only get a thousand videos, to see it getting tens of thousands. Now, the work you put in and the quality of the output deserves so much more. But we all gotta start somewhere!
You really have become my favorite RUclipsr, I love just coming home after a long day of work, grabbing a drink, and throwing on one of your videos. You help me unwind and destress in a way where you have become part of my daily routine. Keep up the hard work, and remember me when you’re famous !
Being born in the mid 90s, there was something special with the early internet up to the late 2000s, it just felt so authentic, where people can more freely express themselves. Considering my first interaction with the internet was around 2004, in the years up to 2010 at the most, I've never felt more connected to the internet in those years than I am with now. Discovering different sites, visitng different variety of forums, meeting people with different hobbies. It's not even nostalgia talking, it's literally just better in my opinion, these days even though I have better and faster speeds and can pretty much access it through my phone, I felt like it lost it's authenticity, considering a lot of sites these days that are just alive are the big ones, that while some niche sites and forums still exists, it just doesn't feel the same, especially when most of those places have a lot less people than they did in the heyday. Considering late gen z, alpha, and newer generations will be old enough to be exposed pretty much to mostly the surface web and big sites, more and more of those other sites and leftover forums will die eventually.
I'm personally just thankful that Discord happened to come by in 2015, honestly it was such a breadth of fresh air personally. Even though it might go south again like pretty much any big site, at least that made me feel glad that the internet and social media havent gotten stale in the 2010s.
What's good about discord? Educate me I thought it was just like FB but you need a invite?
Also your opinion about things just being better back then is probably correct. I feel the same. I think it's important..
@@jasongarcia2140Its actually very different than FB, its essentially a bunch of chat rooms. You can make your own server with different individual channels for different topics if you want, or theres themed servers for things like Pokémon Go where people can arrange meet ups and things.
@@jasongarcia2140 It's more like a more sophisticated IRC for Zoomers than Facebook. It's really not that bad, not having a feed dictating what you see is nice. It has a reputation for shady characters but I don't think it's really much worse than other places online where there's a focus on community.
The nostalgia of seeing that old windows OS and Tom’s face hit me like a brick wall. Great content.
I love the aestetic & quality of ur channel, amazing!!
I love the update to the intro, and I can't wait to see more from you. You can make anything interesting because of your god-tier editing
My mom got us on the actual web in 1990, my first page as a kid was "this is the page that never ends" lol
Every URL I ever owned I lost to bots - if I didn't pay hosting before it was due, bots bought them like 1ms after they were available. Mostly creating fake search engines based on the site's traffic. Still going on today. Too easy to forget a yearly due date, before autopay
1990 was before the invention of the World Wide Web...
For my generation, Facebook was our linkedin neat and professional, never posting anything you wouldn't show your family. Myspace was the spot where you were able to be the true you. No one looked up your myspace when hiring, they looked up your facebook. It still feels wierd to see how things have happened...
Another very interesting and nostalgia evoking video! Thank you for our efforts!
Legitimately my new favorite channel, excellent work
This video is truly a masterpiece, I can see the hard work you’re putting in man!
This is the first video I've seen from your channel. I really love the editing style and your voice is relaxing. I can't wait to see more!
Man, you reminded me how my 9 year old self made a geocities page for a web RPG based on dragon ball z. And to some people, that sentence doesn't sound bonkers. Lots of nostalgia for that time.
Who knew I'd one day see a video wherein someone A) narrates my adolescence, B) reminds me of my 7 separate Geocities sites and the 5 Angelfires, and 2 Terra (until they were annihilated), C) breaks my heart as I remember all the bomb-ass tracks on MySpace that are no more, also that I was in my favorite band's top 8 and had to private my profile... and does it all while recreating *how* I would've watched this back then. How dare you throw my own mortality and the passage of time directly into my aging face? Rude, uncalled for, and I loved it the entire time. 🤙🏽
im trying to keep the legacy of private websites up myself too but on neocities, planning to move it over to my own server someday in the (hopefully) near-future
Thank you Captain! I hope your channel hits big
I was born as a result of myspace so it isnt easy for me to understand the early internet. this video is a great look into the past.
Wow, i can’t believe I’m just discovering your channel! All of your content is right up my alley :) thanks for keeping on!
22:00 beautifully said, as someone has been watching creators come and go since the beginning of RUclips this sentiment made me really happy. Just subscribed
I can't wait to be a digital entity, it would be so fun to ride the vaporware around the geocity
Production value and creative direction in this video is stellar! Great stuff
As one of the MySpace users who had media lost in the transfer, I was saddened (as all my old roller derby blogs/recaps were lost), but certainly not outraged.
This DOES, however, make me wonder: am I the only person who saved the Toys that Kill song “Don’t Take My Clone” from MySpace?
You "keep on keeping on". I just found you and this is the 3rd video I've watched in a row. You deserve better than 107k subs. You keep making and I'll keep watching. Liked and subscribed.
Post-2010, the internet and social media started its descent into beige, corporate banality.
There are still enjoyable things on here, but they're often a pale shadow of what was, and often buried beneath mountains of trash.
When I remember these older times, I feel nothing but sadness for what we've lost.
I was never part of this era, but I have played Hypnospace Outlaw and I love the vibe and personality to these early 2000s late 90s web pages. I wish I could've been a part of that time period, and I'm sad to see how it died out.
lovely video! glad you're getting recognition. found you through your cryptids of Wikipedia video and it was fantastic, as is this. keep it up!
please do keep on keeping on. i absolutely love your video style and can binge your stuff for hours upon hours :)
Your visual style is absolute perfection
Thank you for suggesting Wiby! I was planning to look around for a search engine with a similar concept. I'm low-key in tears :')
This is my new favorite channel
Thank you so much ❤
Damn did you make the new intro its sick
Gen Z's fascination with TV/Monitor static and blips is a very interesting phenomenon.
It's things like this that make me wish that archival sites existed sooner. So much of the old internet was lost when Myspace corrupted. Also, so much stuff I can remember from joining the early internet party far too late, old RUclips videos, old Flash game sites like Andkon, quaint little forums hosted on someone's laptop, old servers that nobody looks at anymore but are somehow still running, How To sites, image forms and archives, small GIF pages with a particular selectable theme, soundboard sites, hacker forums, long lost mp3s of old flash games, and very old E-commerce pages to name just what I can remember from the old internet. I miss the old internet. Makes me sad that we can't go back to it and all this data that wasn't kept is now gone forever.
thanks for making this video
Please GOD let the algorithm get this channel into the recommended of RUclips’s documentary enjoyers.
You deserve subs, the people deserve this quality content.
Hit my recommendations today
this channel is amazing! i love these internet campfire stories
Interesting video. Good job.
Looking forward to a video on the rise, fall, and ruinous demise of News Corp next. Hopefully that video will be coming out soon.
love your vids, so concise n fun to watch!! the graphics and cut scenes to your desktop are great too. keep it up 💌
I very much agree with your sentiments about people uploading in the spirit of the old days of youtube in current year. RUclips, for whatever reason, has been showing me a lot more youtubers on the smaller size (like your channel, which I've been watching all day) and I'm starting to find a lot more value in these videos by smaller youtubers. I'm not really sure why but I think part of it is a nostalgia for what older youtube was like, but also because they have a sort of earnestness and honesty that only comes from very small groups or individuals putting a bunch of effort into something just so that it can exist. As youtube becomes ever more commercialized I feel like this is going to start resonating with a lot more people, potentially leading to some kind of renaissance.
As a kid growing up in the mid to late 2000's I used to make videos with my friends all the time with a DV camcorder and Movie Maker, and as I get older I start to realize how fulfilling and fun it really was even though really nobody ever saw them. I've only got two prototypes for bumps at the moment, but I'm slowly starting to find that joy again.
Keep it up my guy
it is 1:42 AM, this is the third video of yours ive watched in a row. this is a cry for help
Love this video, a great job as always. You're starting to get some traction and I'm hopeful you'll take off as a channel very soon.
Dude, I'm so impressed with your videos. I'm so glad I found you! The research, the quality of production, the way you present information is all perfect
Your work is remarkably good for being on such a small channel. I thoroughly enjoy your videos. If I didn't know better, I would have thought you had 200k-400k subs.
My dad still runs a website started in 1999. Has temperature readings, local news and pictures going back 24 years. Still looks like web 2.0. God bless him
this is an incredible video. holy shit good job on this one
This was on of the most interesting and highest quality breakdown videos I’ve ever seen, and I’ve watched a lot of RUclips. Good job bro.
It's really interesting seeing some of the younger commenters on here. Yes it was an amazing time but at that time we didn't realize it. It was just happening. Myspace, geocities, livejournal, Xanga were just the flavor of the week at that time and we never realized back then what we were dealing with. It's just insane to look back over 25 years and see just how quickly everything changed and how society as a whole went from just using it as something fun or for a book report, and now we each hold these powerful computers where we can go on any site, see any video wherever and whenever we want
I love your style of editing!! I subbed immediately :)
First time checking out the channel. It's insane to me that you've been doing this for years and don't have more subs for this quality content. You definitely got my sub.
You need to do a video on RUclips Poops. Not sure how big they got but, they were funny and weird and scary sometimes. They were a precursor to youtube found footage.
You're a genius. You should make that video, yourself.
I've been a big part of all those communities since just after their inception, yet somehow, I never put two-and-two together.
Of course! It makes almost too much sense haha.
Thanks for posting this comment. I know it sounds silly, but I'm very passionate about the "Dadaist" elements found on RUclips.
I woke up after falling asleep with this playing and had to wake up and turn it off because it was giving me nightmares. I remember taking a mental note to see what the hell I was listening to when I woke up.
Ruins of the Web could be a whole series.
Well congratulations the algorithm pushed your content my way. I think the RUclips gods are smiling on you. And this was so well produced and thought out I think those who find you will stay. Keep up the good work!
We miss MySpace, so much... wish we could revisit..one more time.. 🙃
I had a handful of music pages from projects i was in during high school and college that were completely lost forever in the Myspace data loss incident and it's still pretty upsetting to think about
I wonder if I ever found your music and fell completely in love with it and if the sounds carried me through my teenage years..
@@jasongarcia2140 probably not most of it was complete garbage but still lol
MySpace deleted the Violin Lady of Pittsburgh (a famous busker)'s music and I will never forgive them.
RIP Kimberlee Faught
This is my first video I have discovered of yours, and the film noir is oozing out of this, feels good, instant subscribe.
Well this was recommended to me.
You are almost there if you keep doing this.