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What we’ve lost: The MySpace war files and the impact of a digital 'Dark Age' (spectrumlocalnews.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Countless firsthand accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have disappeared across the last decade, and it may speak to larger issues with the historical record in the digital age.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll be honest, I had forgotten MySpace was a thing back then. Every single page I went to was gaudy as hell and took forever to load on my dial up connection at the time. I'm a little surprised they're still around. And damn, it looks a lot different!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yea it’s a music centric site now, right?

Edit: I was curious so I looked it up. They either have 6-10 employees and 1-5M in revenue, or 523 employees and 84.2M in revenue, depending on whether you misspell ‘employees’ in the search or not (on bing).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't remember the specific article I read that dove into this but it was essentially sold due to it being one of the first large data collections (user data). I'm not sure the extent its traweled now but before the social media machine took off, it was the largest if not one of the largest concentrations of actual data points to run algorithms against.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Justin Timberlake owns like half of it nowadays.