One thing that I keep seeing over and over again...
a generation of developers inspired by... MYSPACE.
If that's you, I want to hear about it!
Did you go to school for development, are you attending a boot camp, are you totally self-taught? What do you do now? What was your favorite MySpace memory? Share your story!
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I started around the MySpace time and it was definitely a part of my coding journey. I remember slicing PSDs up in photoshop, uploading them to imageshack and using html to style profiles. I was popular with all my friends and local bands as I could make them look cool online haha!
Imageshack and Geocities were life back then 😂
It took me about 5 mins to remember imageshack but damn it was amazing.
I remember hacking a bit at MySpace, it was my first exposure to code, but it didn't really interest me at the time because I was more interested in game dev than web. But when I started doing computer science classes in college I took a small web class and was thinking this was super familiar.
MySpace popped up around the same time I was dabbling in some MMORPGs that had some limited development built into them (Furcadia, anyone?). Within a few weeks, I taught myself CSS/HTML and was customizing my friends pages for them. I didn't go on to a career in development, but it stuck with me.
I'm now doing a bootcamp at Flatiron School, and I'm surprised by how much I still remember from the good ole' MySpace days. 😂 I can't tell you how many times I've typed
<i>and<b>instead of the preferred<em> <strong>because of MySpace habits from when I was like 11 years old...Absolutely! I loved being able to change the layout, colors, and if people were able to see my top 8. I don't think I realized at the time how magical HTML was, but it definitely felt cool to make my page my own.
I'm 4 weeks away from graduating an immersive software engineering boot camp and I can say for sure that without MySpace I would have never found my way here.
Gosh, I suppose I never considered this. I remember some of the earliest work I did was customizing my Myspace profile to look super neat. I was really bad at it, but I must have loved it enough to keep going.
It was Neopets for me, actually! I remember printing out HTML tutorials and "studying" them as a kid 😅