MySpace.com was founded in 2003 by a few people in Southern California. The person responsible for promoting this website is Tom Anderson. In the beginning, MySpace was founded by a group of twenty-five-year-olds. In the development history of MySpace, many people have made greater contributions than Tom, such as Chris and Josh. One of the little-known and somewhat mysterious figures, Shane, also made a great contribution to the early success of MySpace. He invited many famous friends to join the site, and with them, their fan bases.

Within a few months, the site's popularity grew rapidly. At the same time, programmers are also doing their best to make various improvements to the website. In early September, they made a lot of changes to the site, and since then, users have been able to delete things.

On September 25, 2003, MySpace launched several new features, including a circle profile page, a trash can that can clear the inbox, and a new bulletin board appearance. All have real-time email reminders, an unlimited number of friends, and the option to modify your email address and turn off reminders. At the same time, a series of system vulnerabilities were also patched.

In October 2003, they launched new features, such as the ability to comment on people's profile photos, hiding online status, the ability to block friend requests, and moderating comments before they are posted on the page. . By November 2003, MySpace added the following features: classified ads, photo ratings, and finding users by interests. A user's "online" status is displayed in more places, and the inbox system has been greatly improved. At the same time, users began to try to use HTML code to edit more dazzling profile pages to attract attention. Some users will also provide help to new users or users who are not proficient in using HTML code to help them personalize their profile pages.

On December 18, 2003, MySpace launched its instant messaging system to enable instant communication between users. Some MySpace users also set up their own IRC chat rooms and promoted them as unofficial. MySpace launched its own chat room in February 2004.

To this point, MySpace has gained a lot of revenue through its growing number of partners and sponsors.

2004

By 2004, musicians were allowed to create their own profile pages and upload mp3s of their songs to build a larger fan base. Some bands even allow their songs to be downloaded. This concept (not sure exactly what the concept here refers to) works for some people and not for others.

In early April 2004, features such as forums, games, advanced search, and a new log customization were launched. The game includes the very popular "Gold Miner".

Starting from June 4, 2004, users can create new circles so that people with the same interests can have a place to share their feelings. There are two ways to add members to a circle. One is that the administrator of each circle can invite others to join, and the other is that users can join by themselves through word of mouth or by browsing circles in MySpace. However, some circles that posted offensive photos were scrutinized by the site's creators because the photos were against the site's policies. (The website) is working hard every day to deal with this type of circle, and eventually, hopefully, there will be no more offensive content. Some other problems encountered by circles and websites are spam, and supernatural beings trying to spin, and these spins can cause damage to the forum through HTML. (The translation of "a supernatural creature trying to spin" is uncertain, the original text is "a supernatural creature that is supposed to trolls")

In the autumn of 2004, the blog system launched another small feature. If they wanted to support their friends, users could use "Support," which later became "Praise," to have their friends praise them or pay tribute.

Another name change was changing the blog to a blog.

At the turn of 2004 and 2005, MySpace launched the "Event Invitation" item. Many bands use this feature to invite fans to their shows, but it can also be used for many other purposes. At the same time, rumors were flying that the site might shut down, and in response, Tom sent a message to everyone's inboxes that read, "MySpace has no plans to shut down, and it never will." Tom Anderson has a rigorous approach to anything that might make him money.

2005

On January 27, 2005, MySpace launched another new feature that allows its users to see their profiles in AOL, Yahoo, and MSN. Are your friends also in MySpace? What was a problem in the early days of creating the site is now a feature here.

MySpace has launched a new alumni directory feature. Previously, users had to fill in where they were students or graduates. On February 8, 2005, all users who had filled in their school names were automatically assigned to the home page of their respective schools. Now users can more easily search for their classmates. At the same time, the homepages of these schools have also replaced some school-themed circles. The new homepage immediately displays fifteen members; all of them are from this school. students, while newly added members are placed on the left side of the page. The homepage of this school also provides a classified advertising function, where users can buy and sell textbooks, rent houses, or recruit renters. And those looking for these things or locations can also apply within their area. The school's homepage also has its own forum, which makes the original circle useless, but unlike circles, you cannot post pictures in the forum, and there are no administrators.

On February 24, 2005, MySpace provided circle administrators with a convenient function to pin certain topics to the top of the forum. In some other sites with forums, such as the famous "sticky threads", this feature is open to all users, so that users do not have to flip through several pages of posts in order to find what they want. As an administrator, if they want to pin a post to the top, they must activate what MySpace calls a "pin." Pinning a post will pin it to the top, and removing the "pin" When the time comes, cancel the pin. This feature is great for drawing attention to a topic so that it doesn’t get lost among other posts.

On March 28, 2005, it launched the "username" function so that users can create a new URL address by themselves. Users who know the address can enter it directly into the address bar and easily access their friend's profile page.

For example: Sally wants to create a username address.

She submitted it as "sallymyspacegirl".

Her URL is www.myspace.com/sallymyspacegirl.

Her friends can access her page by entering this address.

Problems

When faced with thousands of registrations every day, MySpace encountered a series of problems, and its servers needed frequent maintenance to increase system speed. Ironically, all this maintenance has the tendency to make the site slower. Additionally, the website’s creators introduce a new feature almost every month.

This website also has some political leanings. Countless "anti-racist" groups are allowed to form circles that say they will inflict violence on "racists," while anyone associated with racism is banned without regard to any rules.

Celebrations

To support the site, Tom and the other founders held many parties in Hollywood, Miami, New York City, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle and Hawaii. .

Many users said they felt that MySpace parties were completely a commercial activity, no different from an ordinary club night.

A small number of users also angrily claimed that although those disgusting ads made the site and its creators gain revenue, MySpace never provided anything for free to users.