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Myspace was once the king of social networks. When it arrived it brought with it someting rather revolutionary: a means for people to create, customise and update their own web pages very easily. Sites that let users do this are now ten-a-penny, but prior to Myspace becoming part of the web mainstream back in 2005-06, most people wanting to set up an online presence had to register a domain, then rely on dedicated software to create web content and FTP it up to a server. Not all punters – or indeed bands – could be arsed with this sort of thing, and Myspace’s content creation/management system (however clunky it may seem in retrospect) arguably represented a real step change in how people used the internet: instead of being passive consumers of content, web users could now generate it easily.

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