I loved the chaotic customisation, the way folks pages were so different. MySpace, GeoCities, it all seems so long ago now. There's a great article on 99pi about the mission to save the data when GeoCities was shut down: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-lost-cities-of-geo/
Sites like MySpace taught me to code without realising it. You'd add your own HTML/CSS to try and change stuff which mostly ended up broken or illegible. Colour contrast awareness was not a thing yet!
I was a MySpace whore. Went on a lads holiday to a Greek island. Got stopped by two girls who asked if I was ‘MySpace Greg’. Ended up pulling one of them.
I'd like to say it was hacking about with HTML and CSS, but tbh it was discovering new music and then curating a song for my profile page (The final one of those updates was Such Great Heights by The Postal Service)
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Reading some replies, I honestly never thought to use custom code to personalize it. I did all of that on my personal site earlier.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyves
So I guess I miss my misspent MySpace youth.
That and the personalization & customisation capabilities with HTML/CSS.
Was one of my unrealized-at-the-time gateway drugs to Web Dev+Design.
Tom was chill.