I also had a Gateway, but I didn't produce music. I made films using Microsoft Movie Maker--and to be honest, they were better than most Netflix original content
The sheer number of CDs that I had with burned music on it was mind-boggling. I'm talking several hundred CDs of music downloaded from Napster, Kazaa (and more than a few viruses), Gnutella, WinMX (pound-for-pound, this was the best app), Limewire, and the OG Bittorrent client. And then in college I got a bunch of friends in my dorm hall to set up a series of intranet network shares of their music so that we could all trade files around easier. Damn, that was the life.
The day I finally got a Kenwood MP3 CD player that would read data CDs, I almost cried. I could fit like 80 songs on a CD and that cut it down to like a few dozen.
That hidden stack of CDs with a really random assortment of porn vids, including at least one where the lady looks questionably young, but uh... your friend made the CDs...
This place would've been on the old BBS Bulletin Board System. Kind of pre-internet web browser and search engine days. That's where you found everything.
Same. Never had to provide a phone number or a fucking ID.
Lol when I had Facebook I got around that crap claiming I was homeless using a library PC, didn't have an ID, and would find a lawyer if my account wasn't reinstated.
WebCrawler and HotBot for me.
I remember when Google first came out and people were gushing.
"You can search the internet with it!"
I was like, "you mean like WebCrawler...?"
I made some good money day trading early Internet stocks. You could almost close your eyes and point at anything internet related then throw some money at it, and see the price go up in just weeks. I did that with things like Netscape's web browser.
We killed myspace, by cluttering our shit pages with shit.
Tom gave us freedom and we abused it, concerning ourselves with how we could, never thinking if we should.
Tom was humble. Never updated his profile pic, never used the reach of his friend count to be invasive. Just a friendly neighbor for all. An example to emulate we never did.
Yes, I’m friends with him. Ah, the good ole days of browsing some chick’s page and Metallica starts blasting S soon as you open it, your cursor turns into a magic wand, or your friend get pissed at you because they didn’t make the Top 8.
Ya'll just reminded me of Bonzi Buddy and shitty midis of "One Winged Angel". Those were simpler times back then. Used to hang out at the local Benigans and talk about George Carlin and Andrew Dice Clay along with nerding out about which Final Fantasy was better, 6 or 7.
Tom sold MySpace LONG time ago. Before this shit happened. There's an interview of him where he talks about the new owners wanted to get rid of him so hard.
Ahhhh back when the internet was spicy & mp3s took me 20mns to download
LOL
I remember buying a (please laugh!) GATEWAY PC to “produce music” (don’t stop!!)
I was on the phone for a solid 2 weeks w tech support as soon as it arrived
I also had a Gateway, but I didn't produce music. I made films using Microsoft Movie Maker--and to be honest, they were better than most Netflix original content
Do share!! 👍😀
Ahh gateway, or as us nerds used to refer to it "cow crap in a box". I now absolve you of your pc sins my son
My God man, you could dial some numbers and turn off call waiting!
NOW you tell me!
*70
The sheer number of CDs that I had with burned music on it was mind-boggling. I'm talking several hundred CDs of music downloaded from Napster, Kazaa (and more than a few viruses), Gnutella, WinMX (pound-for-pound, this was the best app), Limewire, and the OG Bittorrent client. And then in college I got a bunch of friends in my dorm hall to set up a series of intranet network shares of their music so that we could all trade files around easier. Damn, that was the life.
The day I finally got a Kenwood MP3 CD player that would read data CDs, I almost cried. I could fit like 80 songs on a CD and that cut it down to like a few dozen.
what really hahahaha good times 😂
And before my porn tastes were utterly depraved due to overexposure
This is the funniest thing I've read all day. Well done...you deserve a good session of Brazzers!
That hidden stack of CDs with a really random assortment of porn vids, including at least one where the lady looks questionably young, but uh... your friend made the CDs...
Tawnee Stone
640x640 porn was amazing. Remember Milf Hunter?
This place would've been on the old BBS Bulletin Board System. Kind of pre-internet web browser and search engine days. That's where you found everything.
I remember passing around BBS's to my friends, on written pieces of paper. Really fun times.
Napster...
WinAmp. It really kicks the llamas ass!
You just made my fucking day. My winamp skin was fire.
I changed mine often. I really liked the red metal or the one that looked like a fender amplifier. The screen saver visuals were tight too!
Surfing the high seas of the internet with lime wire, Napster, the good Times
well despite everyone thinking they were a web designer, having eye gouging themes and GIF backgrounds and comic sans
What's funny is that people traded the ability to express themselves however they wanted with MySpace for the blandness of Facebook.
Same. Never had to provide a phone number or a fucking ID.
Lol when I had Facebook I got around that crap claiming I was homeless using a library PC, didn't have an ID, and would find a lawyer if my account wasn't reinstated.
The exclusivity sold Facebook and made it cool
I used to make money making peoples myspace pages look how they wanted lol
I used to steal my friends passwords and cover their Myspace in gay porn. Sick burn.
Early Facebook had customization skins for a short time but that was too much freedom I guess.
My girl and I were just talking about that yesterday. Facebook is so boring...
hey, you talk shit, but editing myspace layouts was the single shot that launched ten thousand men's on their six-figure careers
Ah...the days of AltaVista and Mosaic. The original Hotmail was the best email platform (still) I've seen.
I still have a hotmail address, and I still gripe about it being sold every time I have to log in through outlook's website.
Damn right. @live.com can kiss my ass
Hotmail sucked. Lycos for search.
Lol, AskJeeves ftw
Look at these non Web-Crawler using plebes.
WebCrawler and HotBot for me. I remember when Google first came out and people were gushing. "You can search the internet with it!" I was like, "you mean like WebCrawler...?"
Lycos, fetch boy!
I made some good money day trading early Internet stocks. You could almost close your eyes and point at anything internet related then throw some money at it, and see the price go up in just weeks. I did that with things like Netscape's web browser.
Don't forget virus ridden animated mouse cursors and MIDI "music" that started autoplaying and looping long before the page finished loading.
Hope your speakers weren't turned up, because the widget to turn the midi off won't load in for another minute and a half!
It was kind of like Marmite - you either loved the terribleness of it, or hated it.
I got tons of ass an Myspace. Proto tinder. That's your attraction.
Thanks to MySpace I was editing CSS at age 7.
You're still my friend Tom
Top # of friends was the only reason to use social media. Too much fun to switch someone out to have them call you 5 minutes later
Yooo so many fights about that.
We killed myspace, by cluttering our shit pages with shit.
Tom gave us freedom and we abused it, concerning ourselves with how we could, never thinking if we should.
Tom was humble. Never updated his profile pic, never used the reach of his friend count to be invasive. Just a friendly neighbor for all. An example to emulate we never did.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, B&W movies were shown in HD.
90 years before 'HD'.
Only because silver nitrate degrades and never properly stored, had the public got the perception old B&W movies were poor quality.
Funniest fucking movie I have ever watched was Arsenic & Old Lace. Jesus Christ it's impossible trying to get people I know to watch it.
I saw a stage performance of Arsenic & Old Lace. Was hilarious.
This very description had made decide to try Arsenic and Old Lace now.
Couldn't be arsed before
Yes, I’m friends with him. Ah, the good ole days of browsing some chick’s page and Metallica starts blasting S soon as you open it, your cursor turns into a magic wand, or your friend get pissed at you because they didn’t make the Top 8.
MEMORIES
Makes you wonder if it had survived whether he would have zuckerberg'ed and started doing all that shit.
Its a sad musician focused social page..or something.
My first internet friend, hope Tom is doing well (he is).
His IG is lit, dude's traveling and taking photos.
Tom was my first friend on Myspace, heck of a guy! Geocities FTW!
In an interview, he talked about his that "him as first friend" was actually a workaround for a bug lol
Link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA4vPc5SqJ8
NOTE that this is with Tai Lopez whom I am not a fan of at all. But the interview was still good.
Knawledge!
KEK "Here in my garage with my brand new Lamborghini here"
Here I am in a strangers garage, with my wall full of books I never read, with my rented Murcielago over there!
Now there is Neocities 😉
Freedom is letting me use scrolling marquees, animated starry gif backgrounds, and playing back full blast a 10 second music clip on repeat.
The first online friend we all had
Tom was my friend.
Ya'll just reminded me of Bonzi Buddy and shitty midis of "One Winged Angel". Those were simpler times back then. Used to hang out at the local Benigans and talk about George Carlin and Andrew Dice Clay along with nerding out about which Final Fantasy was better, 6 or 7.
Shouldn’t have retired and left us unprotected
I remember you could post a 20,000 x 20,000 pixel photo onto someone's walla and ruin their scroll bar, it was the wild west and it was epic
Myspace was the shit, I used to mack on females on there lol, I remember when I first learned how to customize my page, I thought I was the shit.
Hey everyone, you need to ditch Myspace and come over to my super cool Geocities page! I've got almost 2000 wave files you can download!
Tom sold MySpace LONG time ago. Before this shit happened. There's an interview of him where he talks about the new owners wanted to get rid of him so hard.
2016 dude, longer after Tom excited and myspace was dead
Guardian.
Dude...
... dude...
...
Ah MySpace...shitty page effects, mood music, and grown men pretending to be college girls as far as the eye could see...I miss it!
He was my only friend on myspace...
Honestly, I miss Xanga. I was sad when everyone jumped over to Myspace.
Also, the best sound growing up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0
Xanga! Now theres a name I havent heard since all before you were born...
Hey, I was internet friends with this guy!
I miss tom... those were the days..
Travelling worldwide and doing photography I believe, just living a fantastic life in retirement off the radar.
https://instagram.com/myspacetom
Maybe he really was my friend.
Tom was my friend!
I remember reading that he flew out an Asian chick to bang and she posted that he had a small dick, then he banned her from Myspace.
Sadly i bet these big tech ceos make more than 500 mil to influence the election ..
All this reminiscing reminds me of another nostalgic video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9DST-6jIBU
Tom was my friend.
Tom was all our fren
🤗
Ehhhh.... MySpace paved the way for facebook to flourish
Then Murdoch bought it and the media made it their mission to take it down.
We're getting content from Reddit now? This was trending on the front page yesterday