Gadgetory

so my myspace username was Korean boys 64 my myspace name was dr. Peter Venkman it was gnarly Arielle my myspace username was the camouflage chameleon I first account was my personal one it was Dan Ackerman and why see because someone else got there first then got regular Dan Ackerman and I was like friends with all of these like older like Kooks and stuff that I worked with and they would all be like what's up chameleon and then later they moved to a much more music oriented platform so I made a second account Dan Ackerman music right uploaded all kinds of music from different albums and stuff I worked on my myspace username I don't even want to tell you [Laughter] the topic moves my space was so important and it felt like such a big deal to be in someone's top eight you always tell you you had to reciprocate the feeling right like if your best friend put you as their number one you had to put them at least at number three two or one not only is like isolating eight of your friends or your family members like kind of messed up but then there was like ranking within the top eight do you remember that one of them was a girl that I had a crush on and I would it would I thought it was like a subtle message to them that hey you're on my top eight and you know I'm interested in the kind of things it's lame if tom is in your topic because you know like this person is not a serious user messed up in my head but I like evaluated all my friendships and like put one before the other and it was like this thing it's like and it was obvious and I think that's what I think that's what everyone did hell yeah I decorated my myspace page it was very classy that was a big mistake they shouldn't have let people do that I just remember everyone had these wild pages with blinky things and flashing things and everything was so seizure-inducing and I took it as a point of pride to keep my page very mellow Mary very sedate designing your own page was a really big deal if you knew how myspace is where I actually learned HTML like like learn what it was and what you could do with it I would go on to different peoples myspace steal their codes and then you could put that into your page and then kind of modify it alright I would go on google and look for you know MySpace theme codes and you can go in like copy and paste these certain codes you had to like drill down into the HTML and you could like code your own page up it was the first time I remember ever looking at the internet and being like oh everything on the Internet is just a big word puzzle I can figure this out it made me realize like oh wow this is actually so much easier to put stuff together and maybe I don't remember like a lot of what the hell you did on my series it was way more like lurking I feel like I think I'm mostly posted some photos and looked at some of my friends photos a very early version of photo sharing obviously music stuff became a big part of it that was the main thing we weren't really posting links back then so much as simply making an outpost for other people to come and see Oh a lot of my friends followed bands but someone that I like particularly remember was Tila Tequila because she was ving amis American and she was a car model then and like a lot of my guy friends had her on their top eight which is like kind of cringy on their part and then I was just like who is she I was like super infatuated with her but now she's the neo-nazi and a white supremacist so we don't talk about to India so much just like the Internet today you know you didn't have push notifications or anything and people could just post whatever they wanted to so like I remember I had some friends that were like really accrued and would like wow overnight they would post them like obscene image or something on my profile and I'd have to like check in the morning to go like delete it because it was like so gross where you put your own music on this oh that's cool I didn't know that was it good music I mean probably not you know all that matters I moved from Chicago when I was a little boy and I had an extended family that I left and many years later they were trying to look for me on their end and back then you know Matt myspace was the only social platform that you can actually go through and find people right and my name is John Kim so I'm sure that was a billion John Kim's in the world and somehow they were able to look for me on MySpace and connect with me this whole reunion happened after through myspace so just remember like even in 2004 whenever it was what I was like at the most I was ever into it I just constantly remember being like this site feels unfinished and I just remember thinking like this is very ugly even for 2004 on the Internet I just remember that so yeah that's all I know about MySpace I'm glad it's over