Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed
Google in 2010 was a white page with a colourful logo, one box and ten blue links. The year began with Google refusing to keep censoring results in...
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Section 4
Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.
12 reconstructed results for software in the 2010 exhibit.
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/browser-toolbars
Toolbars were the plague of the 2010 browser: bundled with Java updates, antivirus software and free downloads, they stacked below the address bar until the page was a...
TechnologyEditorialReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/office-2010
Office 2010, released to consumers on 15 June 2010, put the Ribbon interface in every application, added the Backstage file view, and launched free Office Web Apps that...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/adobe-cs5
Adobe CS5, released in April 2010, brought Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill (the demo video went viral), 64-bit Photoshop on the Mac, and Dreamweaver's CSS improvements....
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/utorrent
µTorrent was the lightweight BitTorrent client most people used in 2010 to download Linux ISOs, and everything else. Its green-and-white window of progress bars, seeds...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/flash-player-10-1
Flash Player 10.1, released in June 2010, ran the YouTube player, Hulu, Pandora, FarmVille, every browser game and most animated adverts; Adobe said it was installed on...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/opera-mini
Opera Mini compressed pages on Opera's servers before sending them to the phone, which made it the most-used mobile browser in the world in 2010, especially on feature...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/browser-plugins
In 2010 the browser was a host for plugins: Flash for video and games, Java for RuneScape and bank sites, Silverlight for Netflix, QuickTime and RealPlayer for media,...
TechnologyEditorialReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/jquery
jQuery 1.4, released in January 2010, was the JavaScript library almost every site used to animate menus, load content with Ajax and paper over browser differences,...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nodejs-npm
Node.js, presented by Ryan Dahl in 2009, reached version 0.2 in 2010 and npm, its package manager, was first published in January 2010. Backbone.js, CoffeeScript and the...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bitcoin-2010
Bitcoin was a year old and worth almost nothing in 2010. On 22 May, Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, the first recorded purchase with the currency. The Mt....
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/firesheep
Released on 24 October 2010, Firesheep let anyone on the same open Wi-Fi network click into other people's Facebook, Twitter and Amazon sessions, because those sites...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/opera-10-5
Opera had only around 2 percent of desktop browser usage in 2010 but kept inventing features others copied: Speed Dial, mouse gestures, Opera Turbo compression, and, in...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed
Google in 2010 was a white page with a colourful logo, one box and ten blue links. The year began with Google refusing to keep censoring results in...
searchgooglegoogle instant
The former Ask Jeeves gives up on search
Ask.com, once Ask Jeeves with its butler mascot, still had a few percent of US searches in 2010, largely through toolbars bundled with downloads. In...
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China's search engine, after Google walked away
Baidu was already the dominant search engine in China when Google stopped censoring google.cn in March 2010 and redirected users to Hong Kong....
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Microsoft's one-year-old "decision engine"
Bing had launched in June 2009 with a photographic homepage and a marketing budget that called it a "decision engine" rather than a search engine. In...
searchbingmicrosoft
A computational knowledge engine
Launched in May 2009, Wolfram|Alpha answered questions by computing rather than searching: type a maths problem, a date, or two cities and it...
searchwolfram alphamaths
The portal: mail, news, Answers and Flickr
Yahoo! was still one of the most-visited sites on Earth in 2010, thanks to Yahoo Mail, the news-heavy portal homepage, Yahoo Answers, Flickr and...
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Historical search result pages cannot be reproduced faithfully: they depended on the day, the location, the logged-in account and an index that no longer exists. Instead of pretending, this page searches the exhibit's own records and presents them in the visual language of a 2010 results page. Each result links to an entry with its sources and confidence label.