Picking the perfect profile song was serious business.People asked the internet anything, and the answers were often hilariously wrong.It was the go-to site for sneaking in free games on the school computer.Pixelated characters hung out in virtual hotel rooms and decorated their own spaces.Kids waddled around a snowy virtual world as cartoon penguins.It built a huge following in Latin America and Asia before most people had heard of Facebook.This social network was briefly a favorite with teens in the UK and Ireland.It changed how people got music, until lawsuits shut the original service down.Long personal posts and dramatic mood updates made it an early home for bloggers.It was the online diary where teens poured out their feelings, usually in very colorful fonts.Logging on meant hearing a friendly voice tell you that you had mail.You typed your question to a cartoon butler and hoped he understood.Millions of kids logged on every day to feed and care for their virtual pets.Anyone could build a homepage, complete with flashing text and a visitor counter.It was one of the first big social networks, and it stayed hugely popular across Southeast Asia.
