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MySpace: the story of its creation. by Brad Greenspan (freemyspace.com)
22 points by adrianwaj 844 days ago | 5 comments


2 points by ereldon 844 days ago | link

as the old saying goes, success has a thousand fathers

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2 points by adrianwaj 844 days ago | link

History uploaded around October 2006 (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.freemyspace.com/cont...).

MySpace acquired July 2005 by News Corp (http://www.newscorp.com/news/news_251.html).

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1 point by axod 843 days ago | link

MySpace really hurts my eyes and brain. Whoever admits to creating it should be hung.

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1 point by imsteve 843 days ago | link

I think people have done worse in exchange for a lot less than half a billion...

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1 point by cglee 843 days ago | link

Not sure how the first sentence leads to the second. Also, there are millions of people who like (love?) myspace, so obviously you're not their target audience. Although I don't like myspace either, I do appreciate that not everything on the web is varying shades of gray boxes.

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