MySpace

Founded in 2003 by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, MySpace was the digital equivalent of a 90s house party—wildly popular, chaotic and ultimately replaced by something shinier. Known for its customizability that allowed users to decorate their profiles with glittery backgrounds and egregious auto-play music, MySpace ruled the social media roost until Facebook waltzed in with a more refined, ad-free interface. Its crowning achievement came in 2006 when it briefly became the most visited site on the internet, only to be swiftly overshadowed by Zuckerberg’s relentless juggernaut. The company’s current valuation teeters around obscurity, with its latest pivot into music and entertainment struggling to capture the zeitgeist of a market that has long moved on. Scandalous missteps, including a catastrophic redesign and a dubious data breach, only sped up its fall from grace. Under the leadership of various execs, including the beleaguered Mike Jones, MySpace’s attempts at a comeback have been as successful as a revival of "The X-Files"—short-lived and largely forgotten. Once a behemoth in the social sphere, it's now a relic, a digital dinosaur that failed to adapt while the world sped by.