“Tom had us all doing front-end web development”: a nostalgic (re)imagining of Myspace

Figures & data

Figure 1. Screenshots of SpaceHey.com circa June 2021 and Myspace.com circa 2007 (via archive.org).

Table 1. Total number of Tweets posted to each search term per year (2011–2021).

Year	Total number of Tweets posted to Myspace + code OR coded OR coder OR coding OR HTML
January 2012	172
January 2013	180
January 2014	188
January 2015	110
January 2016	95
January 2017	115
January 2018	191
January 2019	254
January 2020	258
January 2021	583
Total	2146

Table 2. Tweets coded to each theme, organised by year.

Year	Gen. Nostalgia	Skills	Platform Politics	Total
2011	(no data)	(no data)	(no data)	0
2012	58	104	10	172
2013	75	93	12	180
2014	47	130	11	188
2015	22	85	3	110
2016	21	68	6	95
2017	18	90	7	115
2018	35	141	15	191
2019	62	180	12	254
2020	65	169	24	258
2021	133	359	91	583

Figure 2. A customized Myspace layout (via pimp-my-profile.com).