Throughout the history of the Internet, every social media platform had a different function. MySpace was for budding artists to build a fanbase by sharing their music with their peers. Vine was all ...

While the other social media platforms were keeping it tidy, Tumblr was going wild. "Curated for what?!" they howled. It's often been referred to as a space where social networking and blogging meet.

Some sites really do have an "era," a sort of golden age where all the content just had that magic touch that got people interested and invested. One such ecosystem was (or perhaps still is, for ...