Started by Lou Tremblay (@liminal_lou) ·
Myspace lost everything uploaded before 2016
In 2019 Myspace admitted a server migration had wiped out more than a decade of uploads, music included. For a lot of small bands that was the only place their early demos ever lived.
5 sources · 37 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- Did Myspace really lose all its music?
- Ended at
- “myspace dragon hoard internet archive”
The Trail
- “myspace lost all music 2019” (google.com)
- Myspace (en.wikipedia.org)
- Data loss (en.wikipedia.org)
- Internet Archive (en.wikipedia.org)
- “myspace dragon hoard internet archive” (google.com)
an anonymous group had saved roughly half a million songs from 2008–2010
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