2021 hasn’t brought us much so far, but for those who remember a time before Tiktok dances and Snapchat filters, that’s about to change.
Bebo is reported to be coming back next month, with a message on the website saying “Bebo is coming back in February 2021 as a brand new social network. We are currently in private beta. If you’ve been invited please enter the password below.”
After falling out of love with the world and their internet in the early 2010’s when Facebook appeared to conquer the earth, Bebo vanished off the face of the earth, leaving people wondering what happened to all that love they sent to a now long-forgotten friend, their whiteboard doodles, quizzes or that really cool skin that took hours to put together.
So, while the good news is Bebo is returning, the bad news is you won’t be able to recover old photos and data for the full-on nostalgia trip providing that snapshot of life when things were simpler and a bit less coronavirus, bills and babies. A note on the website adds: “Please note: all the old data and photos were lost many years ago and are not recoverable. Sorry.”
What happened to Bebo?
Once upon a time, before smartphones, Facebook and Amazon Prime, people kept in touch with their friends in three ways. Myspace, where Tom made sure you were never without a friend, MSN Messenger where you’d spend hours after school making sure all 25 of your friends were in your status and Bebo.
Bebo was created in 2005 by husband-and-wife Michael and Xochi Birch and at one point was the most popular social networking site in the UK and Ireland. It was bought by AOL in 2008 and with the rise of Facebook, things went down hill. People had fallen out of love with their whiteboards, quizzes and deciding who to send their three “loves” to and migrated to Facebook, where everything now seems to live.
Two years later AOL said they’d close down the website if they didn’t find a buyer and it went into the hands of an investment firm under which nothing really seemed to work anymore. As time went on, Bebo got forgotten.
The original owners bought Bebo back and attempted to run it as a social network with a built-in messaging app called “Blab”, but no one really noticed it. The owners then used the brand to create a streaming software, which was an all-in-one app that let gamers stream themselves playing games directly to Twitch.
It was Twitch, owned by Amazon, which bought Bebo 3.0 or whatever it was by then in 2019 and with it came the company’s iconic logo, software and URL as well as transferring the employees of the new Bebo to their company.
In recent times, many who once loved it wondered what happened and it seems it’s making a comeback. Let’s just hope it isn’t another Woolworths, although the signs are promising. Although, it leaves us wondering what's next. MSN Messenger, anyone?
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2021-01-29 13:07:00Z
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