The original coolest neighborhood on the net
July 23, 2010mike No Comments »Sure facebook is the coolest place for your avatar to live on the net (sorry WoW) and I say avatar because I’m sure some people’s facebook pages are… a little more calculated than their real life. Ok I know people who put just about anything and everything up there, but many make their webprescence shine a little more than they do.
So how many people remember Myspace? Most of you? How many still use it? Myspace is the dark back alley to facebook’s perfect suburban neighborhood.
Many moons ago Myspace was the coolest neighborhood on the net, everyone was there, News Corp spent big money to be there, now its a place of indy bands.
Who remembers the original coolest neighborhood on the net? A place where everyone gathered to tell you a bit about themselves? Geocities.
Yes that’s right, before Yahoo shut off Geocities for good, years and years ago it was the coolest place to be (yeah I knew some Angelfire weirdos too!).
But man if you were on Geocities you were the king of cool!
My address on Geocities was in TimeSquare (which was for computers and video games, yeah I was always like this!). Those were the days! But the world changes and we move forward, we move up in life, from the underworld of a text based internet into a picture and video tagging limelight.
Its always good to look back to where we came from to see how far we have come!
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