Comments on: MySpace – making the web uglier

By: Nandos … 1996 « utter insanity

Nandos … 1996 « utter insanity — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:21:09 +0000

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By: Deems

Deems — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:21:22 +0000

@Dre – exactly mate. MySpace should rather have stuck to what they originally did, offering an online storage facility – back then it looked good and it worked.

You just *had* to go and mention goatse and 2g1c on my blog now didn’t you? You forgot to throw in the lemon party and tubgirl while you were at it.

By: dre

dre — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:59:19 +0000

I spit on ugly websites – pew

As a succcccccker for eye-candy I must agree with you D – myspace sucks. They should change to name to mycrapspace.

I think the problem lies in giving too much power to the users. Now I must say that I am a proponent of empowering users but only to the extent where it does not remove anything from the service or offering.

Myspace could have gone the route of other templating sites which allows the user some freedom for expression but limits them in the graphical damage they can wreak on the res t of us.

In terms of shock value myspace is right up there with goatse and 2gic

By: Deems

Deems — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:57:44 +0000

@Jimbob – yeah that was also the way I learnt how to code in HTML – open up a web site, check the source in Notepad and play around with it on my machine figuring out what the different tags do and then creating my own pages.

Yeah it is a laugh using the Wayback machine to look at websites pre-2000

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:18:26 +0000

I remember first tinkering with notepad and getting an extreme basic webage going in 1995. Animated gifs and banners were personal achievements that took work back then!

Agree, MySpace assaults the senses

I enjoy taking a step back in time occasionaly and looking how corporate organisation’s websites looked: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Quite fascinating..