Old Myspace videos no longer working in 2018
This may seem ridiculous but I still had a few videos on my Myspace account that aren't on a hard drive or anywhere else on the internet. As of 2017 you could still access your photos and working videos under the "mixes" section, but now the videos have gone dead. The titles and length times still show, but the files are shown as broken and do not play. Haven't really seen too much word about this online from anyone. It seems like eventually someone always figures out a fix. Anyone had any experience with this yet?
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What amazes me about sites like MySpace is how they die slow deaths like this. Eventually you have to ask yourself why are they even running the thing anymore?
Ad revenue is free money.
What amazes me about sites like MySpace is how they die slow deaths like this. Eventually you have to ask yourself why are they even running the thing anymore?
Ad revenue is free money.
I get that but you’re not making ad money if no one goes to your site. Seriously, who goes to MySpace any more? I can’t think of a single demographic that would go there on a regular basis unless MySpace has some how cornered the social media experience of Kazakhstan or some place like that.
What amazes me about sites like MySpace is how they die slow deaths like this. Eventually you have to ask yourself why are they even running the thing anymore?
Ad revenue is free money.
I get that but you’re not making ad money if no one goes to your site. Seriously, who goes to MySpace any more? I can’t think of a single demographic that would go there on a regular basis unless MySpace has some how cornered the social media experience of Kazakhstan or some place like that.
It's totally different from what it used to be. My guess though would be people clinging to the hope that it may one day be cool again. That, and believe it or not, apparently sex workers. I've done some reading and it seems that it's quite popular with literally pimps.
What amazes me about sites like MySpace is how they die slow deaths like this. Eventually you have to ask yourself why are they even running the thing anymore?
Ad revenue is free money.
I get that but you're not making ad money if no one goes to your site. Seriously, who goes to MySpace any more? I can't think of a single demographic that would go there on a regular basis unless MySpace has some how cornered the social media experience of Kazakhstan or some place like that.
It's totally different from what it used to be. My guess though would be people clinging to the hope that it may one day be cool again. That, and believe it or not, apparently sex workers. I've done some reading and it seems that it's quite popular with literally pimps.
Actually, it went back to what it was in the beginning. A music site. But it became social media so that shift back to original focus killed it for good. Musicians migrated to bandcamp while social media whores jumped to Facebook once it stopped trying to be what it was meant to be.
I'm thankful for both platforms for certain reasons, but at this time I say fuck them both.
What amazes me about sites like MySpace is how they die slow deaths like this. Eventually you have to ask yourself why are they even running the thing anymore?
Ad revenue is free money.
I get that but you're not making ad money if no one goes to your site. Seriously, who goes to MySpace any more? I can't think of a single demographic that would go there on a regular basis unless MySpace has some how cornered the social media experience of Kazakhstan or some place like that.
It's totally different from what it used to be. My guess though would be people clinging to the hope that it may one day be cool again. That, and believe it or not, apparently sex workers. I've done some reading and it seems that it's quite popular with literally pimps.
Actually, it went back to what it was in the beginning. A music site. But it became social media so that shift back to original focus killed it for good. Musicians migrated to bandcamp while social media whores jumped to Facebook once it stopped trying to be what it was meant to be.
I'm thankful for both platforms for certain reasons, but at this time I say fuck them both.
Actually, MySpace was for storage and a data repository. It had nothing to do with music/media or social media when it was founded - hence My "Space".
I don't know much about Myspace, but this is somehow not too surprising.
It's pretty surprising that it's been up this long.
Reasons like this is why you have your own hard backups of everything. The Cloud is just a marketable term for someone else's computer.
Sure, utilize it as an offsite backup. But don't depend on it being there forever.
That really sucks. We used to use PictureTrail, not sure if it's still up and around.
Reasons like this is why you have your own hard backups of everything. The Cloud is just a marketable term for someone else's computer.
Sure, utilize it as an offsite backup. But don't depend on it being there forever.
The "cloud" is the worst thing to happen to modern computing. I also wouldn't recommend it being a backup of anything with critical or sensitive data. Use offline, offsite locations for backups.
I don't know much about Myspace, but this is somehow not too surprising.
It's pretty surprising that it's been up this long.
Good point.
My initial thought was "MySpace is working at all?"
Old internet is fun.
People still use myspace?
Wait until you find out about Ask Jeeves, Lycos, and Dogpile. Also AngelFire, Proboards, InvisionFree, deviantArt, ICQ, and mIRC.
Heck, Telnet boards are still up if you’re into that.
People still use myspace?
Wait until you find out about Ask Jeeves, Lycos, and Dogpile. Also AngelFire, Proboards, InvisionFree, deviantArt, ICQ, and mIRC.
Heck, Telnet boards are still up if you’re into that.
wow, I remember Lycos
People still use myspace?
Wait until you find out about Ask Jeeves, Lycos, and Dogpile. Also AngelFire, Proboards, InvisionFree, deviantArt, ICQ, and mIRC.
Heck, Telnet boards are still up if you’re into that.
Reminded me of MUDs, anybody used them? I didn't used them for long but it was kind of mind blowing back in the day. A quick google showed me that https://www.mudconnect.com/ is still up and running
I used to make some pretty sweet wrestling websites on geocities and homestead back in the day as a 12 year old. You could email me on my excite.com account on the cyberspace or just drop a line in my guestbook
Were you part of a webring? And did you monitor your hit counter daily?
I used to make some pretty sweet wrestling websites on geocities and homestead back in the day as a 12 year old. You could email me on my excite.com account on the cyberspace or just drop a line in my guestbook
I remember having a guestbook, I used to also be on geocities and theglobe, used to hang out in the chatrooms, old times.
Edit: fuck it, who else had a Pokemon website on homestead (or geocities)? I try every now and then to wayback machine that shit, but talk about some lost-to-the-ethers-of-time parts of the internet. I even had a rom site lol.