Back in 1998, TheGlobe.com was basically the poster child for the first social network boom—long before MySpace or Facebook. It launched in 1995 as one of the earliest places online where you could build a personal profile, share interests, and join forums around hobbies (think early Reddit mixed with Geocities). By ’98, it exploded onto Wall Street with one of the biggest first-day IPO pops in history—stock shot up from $9 to $97 in a single day. The hype didn’t last, though. Users loved customizing pages and meeting people, but the company struggled to monetize, and by the early 2000s it faded hard. Still, if you remember logging on and tweaking your profile to show off your favorite band or game, TheGlobe was peak “first taste of the internet community” energy.