In 2010 Minecraft was an alpha you bought for about 10 euros from Markus "Notch" Persson's website and played in a Java window. Survival mode had arrived in 2009, Alpha began on 30 June 2010, and Beta launched on 20 December 2010 after hundreds of thousands of sales, largely by word of mouth on forums and YouTube.
- Developer
- Markus Persson (Mojang)
- Publisher
- Mojang
- Released
- 30 June 2010
- Platforms
- PC (Java)
- Genre
- Sandbox survival
- Kind of game
- pc
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Something Awful
The forums that cost ten bucks
Something Awful's forums, where an account cost $9.95, were one of the most influential communities on the 2010 internet. Goons popularised Let's Play videos, ran early Minecraft servers and produced...
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The YouTube stars of 2010
Ray William Johnson, Smosh, nigahiga, Fred, Shane Dawson
In 2010 the most-subscribed YouTube channels belonged to comedians who edited themselves in their bedrooms: Ray William Johnson's =3 viral-video reviews, Smosh's sketches, Ryan Higa's nigahiga, Fred...
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Minecraft enters Beta
Minecraft moved from Alpha to Beta on 20 December after selling hundreds of thousands of copies, with Mojang now a company of several employees.
