MySpace, yes. really!

[MYK-IT]

Don't think even people noticed the news articles (about MySpace) either!

 

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/myspace-apparently-lost-12-years-worth-of-music-and-almost-no-one-noticed/

[jthompson]

I can see the time delay between a service being popular and it getting paved over like this only shortening as time goes by and fads come and go.

[mikeprice]

Don't think even people noticed the news articles (about MySpace) either!

 

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/myspace-apparently-lost-12-years-worth-of-music-and-almost-no-one-noticed/

 

 

 

so - thousands of versions of

have been deleted???

[hardtailstar]

Ive not paid any attention to MySpace since they deleted my account.

[Fazza]

I didnt even realise they were still going!! I wonder if we could save some server storage space by migrating our SIMS servers to a new OS and 'accidentally lose' some of the database and then just said 'whoops' and all would be OK?!

[FishCustard]

Depends what their terms of service says about things like that. I imagine it's "best efforts only" given that users don't pay, and old MP3s aren't going to be generating much ad revenue.

[Arthur]

Internet Archive uploads 1.3 Terabytes of lost MySpace music

 

The Internet Archive got its hands on part of the uploaded MySpace music archive and uploaded it in its entirety to the Archive. The archive has a size of about 1.3 Terabytes, a vast collection of 490,000 mp3 songs that MySpace users uploaded to the networking service between 2008 and 2010.

 

Interested users can browse the entire archive on the Archive.org website. The MySpace Dragon Hoard can also be downloaded directly or as a torrent file.