What was BlackPlanet like at its peak?

[Nobu]

Black planet was life for me at a time. Then I would switch over to migente.com for my Spanish fix

apparently the asian co-founder of BlackPlanet also founded migente

 

[Nemesis]

damn. so it was like those spam ads on pornsites "Horny singles online ready to fukk in your area RIGHT NOW!" but legit?

LOL .... man its crazy how shyt has changed , those days a woman looked exactly like she did in her pictures , all that editing shyt that they all do now wasnt available , I dont even think fat women were using angles in pictures to deceive men back then

man , bytches adapted faster than skynet , they know more about editing software, lighting , camera angles than anyone....

 

[JoseLuisGotcha]

Bruh I was eating great off the trifecta

black planet, migente, asian avenue

Had the I’ll html graphics and i believe i had 112 numbers in your pocket as my page songs

the pagers /messengers
Seeing who’s online
The search filters

before smart phones so the market wasn’t over saturated

had to skip all the pages with no pics talm’ bout “my scanner broke”

 

[Dontay Flaco]

i met a chick from there once.


little did she know i was 13 an she was a college student.

NAH BRUH! You gotta tell that story!

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Y’all brehs taking me back to 97/98/99

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Blackplanet was incredible at its peak. I didn't join until it first started to go downhill but I still met several solid women on there (friends) that I'm still cool with till this day

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Blackplanet was the shyt for years, I use to be in the "Intellectual" chat every day, I still have friends on FB now that i met in there from back then.

I still say to this day that myspace stole their entire idea from BP, they did it better no doubt, but the bones of what they did came from BP...

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

I owe my life to BP

his parents hooked from BP. Breh literally owes his life to BP

 

[Nobu]

Blackplanet was the shyt for years, I use to be in the "Intellectual" chat every day, I still have friends on FB now that i met in there from back then.

I still say to this day that myspace stole their entire idea from BP, they did it better no doubt, but the bones of what they did came from BP...

so it sounds like all y'all wish something like that existed again today? sounds like everyone was a huge fan

 

[Daio]

I was an HTML genius, now I forgot all that shyt

 

[brickfare]

one of my best lady friends is someone I met through bp. we didn't live in the same city so that pretty much explains why we never hooked up

my html and css skills were sharp, not to mention I was able to host files through some shyt my university did so I always had whatever music I wanted on my page at the time

never smashed any (I was a brooding depressed weirdo introvert then) but there was one bad chick I ended up meeting with offline...took a chance even though she didn't have pictures and she was fly af. she was also crazy so it never went past a late night meeting (we were supposed to go to ihop but she pissed me off with some weird shyt). looking back there was definitely another gal I met off the site that I should have fukked smh

 

[Booker T Garvey]

so it sounds like all y'all wish something like that existed again today? sounds like everyone was a huge fan

BP is still around, but they dropped the ball b/c of their cornball CEO that's in the OP

I remember reading a tech websites' interview w/him and he was in there talking about being a "sex symbol", and this was supposed to be a serious interview about technology and business.

while he was chasing skirts, Tom and Mark Zuckerberg passed his dumbass up

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

probably the pinnacle of black excellence.

• Interesting convo with like minded folks
• Dope poetry section (which Ace was apart of)
• Dope layout

If heaven was in binary code, it would be the closest thing to it before it was gentrificated

 

[Bigb41513]

Bp the goat. Make sure you sign my guestbook lmao

 

[Grand Eeezus Maxwell]

Better than Twitter.