I wasn't really into MySpace much in those days. I didn't have many friends and I never quite figured out how to make friends there. When Facebook came along, I was inundated with friends and the utility was lost on me there, too.<p>One piece of the early internet that I do grieve for is a MUD I played in the 90s. I remember when I first found it, and it was the only MUD I ever played.<p>I had heard about this awesome new game called Ultima Online, and there were some great blogs telling stories from the Alpha release. I signed up for the Beta (don't think I ever was accepted?) but in the meantime I scoured UO forums and that's where I found that MUD. I think I honestly only played it for about 2 years but those were absolutely some of the most fun times I ever had on the internet. I think at max the server only had 30 or 40 people on it, and the codebase must have been absolute garbage because it would lag out periodically and you'd lose connection or get killed.<p>I really wish that place had survived, or in the very least I wish it had been documented. Such an amazing thing, it makes me sad to think about.<p>Nowadays, we've come to appreciate the fact that things will disappear off the internet, and people are preserving them. I know, like the article, "it's not the same," and you can't go back in time by just viewing a site on the wayback machine. I'm still glad that people are doing this kind of work, preserving these stories.