Talking about those collage images we see after a users post.

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    Because forums fell out of favour.

    Long answer: internet services became easier to use for non-technically savvy people. It’s no coincidence that as internet access broadened, sites like Facebook gained popularity because they gave people premade, customisable pages that could allow them to express themselves to others and engage in discussion.

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      It’s sad really, I still appreciate phpbb boards, but there’s really no reason to hang out on one if you don’t have any activity there anyway.

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      Early facebook was so different. It had all these weird customisable mini apps that embedded in your page. Like “hatching eggs” where someone would “give” you an egg and you had to wait to see what hatched out of it.

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          For me it was Geocities. That was where my hideous early attempts at css got full reign, it was full of novelty cursors, etc.

          I tried to get my MySpace back recently but it’s tied to a hotmail account I no longer have access to.