MySpace Tom—yeah, the guy in the white T-shirt with that iconic over-the-shoulder smile—was basically everyone’s first online friend in the early 2000s. Tom Anderson co-founded MySpace in 2003, and if you signed up, boom, Tom was automatically in your Top 8. MySpace hit its peak around 2005–2008, letting you customize your profile with wild HTML layouts, auto-playing songs, and that signature “Top 8 drama.” Tom sold the platform to News Corp in 2005 for $580 million, and by the time Facebook crushed MySpace, he’d already cashed out and dipped into photography. Today, Tom is the ultimate nostalgia trigger—proof that the early social media era was about messy profiles, music, and your first real taste of online community.