I always hear people a few years older than me talking about MySpace and how embarrassing their old profiles and photos were. But, I don’t know anyone my age who used MySpace, and I honestly have no idea how MySpace even worked/works. But, the website is apparently still up and running today. MySpace for me is a form of residual media, as it was trendy just a few years before my time.
However, I do remember growing up with computer games on discs that you would put into a desktop computer (The huge, brick-like computers). A lot of my friends also had the Nintendo DS, but now you never see either of these forms of media. Both of these have become obsolete media, replaced by Xbox, Wii, PlayStation, etc.
Oh my gosh. I literally played my DS everyday after school for an hour. I haven’t thought about how you never see people playing with those anymore. They were such a classic.
My sister had a MySpace back when I was younger and when she was younger. I remember her always being on it.
I also had a Nintendo DS when I was younger as well. I used to play Nintendogs all the time, that was my game! I do remember seeing some people playing on a Nintendo at my high school but other than that I don’t ever see anyone playing them anymore.
My little boy still plays on an old DS sometimes (last year, Game Stop was selling all their remaining DS titles for about a buck apiece). What happens to old e-media hardware? Does it just end up in the landfill?
In some ways, MySpace was kind of like the pre-Facebook—did it just get to social media too early? Rupert Murdoch’s Fox paid more than half a billion dollars for MySpace in 2005… and regretted it. http://www.businessinsider.com/murdoch-says-580-million-myspace-buy-a-huge-mistake-2011-10