# Remember When Myspace Taught Us How to Code?

- Link: https://chatterblast.com/blog/remember-when-myspace-taught-us-how-to-code/
- Published: 2018-06-20T16:56:26-04:00
- Author: chatterblastteam

Working at ChatterBlast, it’s crucial to know each social platform like the back
of your hand. I can tell you everything you need to know about Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram and even LinkedIn. However, while I’m creating campaigns and placing ads,
I can’t help but feel a wave of grief for one platform that just didn’t make the
cut. If you couldn’t already guess, I’m referring to my beloved Myspace.

I’m sure many of you reading had one of these back in the day. Hell, I practically
lived on the website growing up. I would spend hours at a time filling out surveys,
commenting on friends’ photos and bedazzling my profile a million times to make 
sure my layout was nothing short of fly. Now of course you could access third party
websites where layouts were pre-made for you. But I was way too elevated to give
into that BS. Even at 13 I had to be my boujie self and would code my little heart
out until everything was exactly how I wanted it.

It turns out I started my career in the social media biz way before I knew that 
you even could have a career in social media. And you all probably did too! I’m 
here to refresh your memory on some of the basic HTML codes that made our Myspace
layouts pop awf.

## **Marquee Text**

Commonly known as moving text. You left everyone stunned when they saw your about
me section practically twerking all over the page.

<marquee behavior=”scroll” direction=”left”>Gianna is amazing.</marquee>

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## **Background Color **

Unless you were somehow content with the unimpressive default grey, knowing this
code was crucial in Myspace self expression. You could even get flashier by using
the background image code and stealing a bunch of crap off Google images.

<div style=”background-color:Pink;width:200px;border:1px solid black;padding:15px;”
><p></p>

</div>

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## **Embed Images**

Who remembers photobucket?! If you’ve never used this gem let me educate you. Photobucket
is a photo hosting website where you upload your pictures and can use the url to
share them on your site. So if you had cute pictures of you and your friends that
you wanted to show off in other places besides your Myspace photo album, you could
use this code to embed them onto your page:

<img src=”/pix/samples/15m.jpg” style=”max-width:100%” alt=”Sample picture”>

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## **Hiding Stuff**

Specifically the extended network box, contact table, blogs, comments, and general
info box. I’m not sure why but no one was happy unless literally everything on their
profile was hidden. In my opinion it did make layouts look a lot cleaner and I’m
guilty af of doing this. If you wanted to hide anything at all, you would use these
babies right here:  

<style>.r{}.extendednetwork{display:none;}</style>

<style type=”text/css”>.contactTable { display: none }</style>

<style>.r{}.friendsComments{display:none;}</style**_>_**

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Well there you have it everyone. While you all may be falling all over Facebook 
and Instagram, I’m still pining over my long lost love, Myspace. It set the stage
for every social platform we have today. And who knows maybe if Myspace was still
utilized, we all would be a lot more motivated to be creative online and put our
hidden coding skills to the test.

RIP Myspace. Love you 4ever.