I’m honestly not too sure how Myspace and Neopets operate(d).
But in Denmark we have Arto, as the first “open” social media platform. Which featured custom HTML and all that jazz.
It was fun as a kid, it went out of fashion way before we all suddenly needed to get a Facebook. We had full on years, without that kind of social media. Like we all played flash games on kongregate and online MMOs like Mafia family and travian. But games like those, really spread through word of mouth.
I had two neopets homepages which I still can’t access, because everytime I try to get my account unfrozen, I end up talking to a bot named Blake who tells me that my original freaking sign up email with the exact date and time I created the account isn’t proof. Unfortunately, “can you put me through to a real human?” doesn’t work :(
Neopets was just plain html, but you weren’t allowed to say damn or hell and I think there may have been some tags you couldn’t use. A lot of pages had a GeoCities vibe, there were custom usermade templates that were very 2000s sparkly. You could customise your shop and put profiles as well I believe. Very garish.
They even had a Neodrive online storage in the early days, I don’t think I ever used it though.
I’m honestly not too sure how Myspace and Neopets operate(d).
But in Denmark we have Arto, as the first “open” social media platform. Which featured custom HTML and all that jazz.
It was fun as a kid, it went out of fashion way before we all suddenly needed to get a Facebook. We had full on years, without that kind of social media. Like we all played flash games on kongregate and online MMOs like Mafia family and travian. But games like those, really spread through word of mouth.
I had two neopets homepages which I still can’t access, because everytime I try to get my account unfrozen, I end up talking to a bot named Blake who tells me that my original freaking sign up email with the exact date and time I created the account isn’t proof. Unfortunately, “can you put me through to a real human?” doesn’t work :(
Neopets was just plain html, but you weren’t allowed to say damn or hell and I think there may have been some tags you couldn’t use. A lot of pages had a GeoCities vibe, there were custom usermade templates that were very 2000s sparkly. You could customise your shop and put profiles as well I believe. Very garish.
They even had a Neodrive online storage in the early days, I don’t think I ever used it though.