Founded in 2003 by Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, Myspace was one of the most visited social network in the world, often surpassing Google in terms of traffic. It is a place where people can log in to write to friends, share photos, play music and share videos. To track how MySpace came into being, we take you back to the 1990s with Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, co-founders of the social networking site. The 48-year-old founded it in 2003 and at its peak it was one of the most popular websites on the internet. Tom Anderson is a very recognizable face, because his face appears whenever someone logs on to Myspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was particularly popular with young people because it was a place where people could interact with their friends and share pictures, videos, photos and other content. Myspace is a social network that at the height of its popularity had over 60 million users and was without doubt one of the largest websites of all time. Recently, the website confirmed that it has lost more than half of its users who uploaded between 2003 and 2005. The site is generally known for its user-friendly interface, free use of features and free access to a wide range of content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Founded in 2003, Myspace offered its users the opportunity to create a personalized layout in which to add their favorite songs. Long gone are the days when new users were automatically added, but the first friends everyone had on the original version of My Space did not have a significant presence on any iteration of the site. Once the leading social network, the music-themed Myspace enabled users to personalize their profiles and make the network more structured. Users could add blog posts, videos and photos, and explore music scenes. Although membership has declined significantly since its peak, this community is still a great place to share music and interact with fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At peak times, the site slowed to a crawl, and some users forgot about the DNS error and were unable to access it at all. In mid-2006, Myspace overtook Google to become the most visited website in the United States. When News Corporation acquired it in 2005 for $580 million, it became the world’s second-largest social network, a position it held until 2008. To this end, eUniverse has used its already large customer base to attract new users and quickly made it the fastest growing social network on the Web. The company launched six months before Facebook, but Myspace grew rapidly and was the second-largest social network in the US and the third most popular in Europe between 2005 and 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Myspace’s founders were inspired by Friendster, and the social network officially went online in January 2004. Friendster “most popular features have been adopted and implemented with some finer points, but the three have taken inspiration for Myspace from the popular social networking site MySpace, to which they belonged. Myspace was launched in 2003 as a vision of what a social networking site should look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At its peak, it had over 200 million users and was valued at $12 billion, and a photo of Tom Anderson smiling in a white T-shirt became one of the most recognizable images on the net. While Myspace is no longer the focus of most people’s attention, anyone who used it back then will remember a certain Tom from the website. He was the first “Myspace friend” of all and is still one of the biggest names in the world of social networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was inspired by Friendster, but Anderson and DeWolfe went further by allowing Myspace users to use nicknames and aliases that were not allowed on friendster. XDrive went into meltdown in the early 2000s and MySpace was founded there. They met the co-founders of the company they started in 2003, Chris Anderson (a former Microsoft employee) and Chris De Wolfe (an entrepreneur).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In just three years, Myspace has quickly become one of the most popular social networks on the Internet and number one in the world. While MySpace and Facebook currently dominate the popular mass of social-internet scenes, Fader says the forces that make up the hot pages are hard to quantify, and that each site could become the next outsider. Following this point, it has been reported that AOL plans to launch a social networking site called AIM Pages alongside Myspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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