2010 Search

10 reconstructed results for aim in the 2010 exhibit.

1. AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) - Buddy lists and away messages, fading fast

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/aim

   AIM had defined instant messaging in America for a decade, with its running-man icon, buddy lists, door-opening sounds and passive-aggressive away messages. By 2010 it...

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2. Windows Live Messenger (MSN) - Nudges, winks and display names full of lyrics

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-live-messenger

   Still called MSN by almost everyone, Windows Live Messenger was the dominant instant messenger outside the United States in 2010, with hundreds of millions of users. Its...

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3. AOL - Dial-up subscribers, AIM, and a content empire in the making

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/aol

   AOL was spun off from Time Warner in December 2009 and spent 2010 remaking itself as a content company: it bought TechCrunch in September, ran Engadget, and still...

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4. Google - Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google

   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 China, added a...

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5. Netflix - Red envelopes, and a streaming-only plan

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/netflix

   In 2010 Netflix was still mostly a DVD-by-mail company, but streaming was taking over: Watch Instantly worked on the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, Roku and, from August, the...

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6. Google Talk and Gmail Chat - Chat inside your inbox

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-talk

   Google Talk, and the Gmail Chat box built into the Gmail sidebar, let people message and video chat without installing anything. In 2010 it was quietly replacing AIM for...

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7. Qzone - China's biggest social network, built on QQ

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/qzone

   Tencent's Qzone, attached to the QQ messenger, was by most measures the largest social network in China in 2010, with hundreds of millions of active users decorating...

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8. Windows Live Hotmail - The world's biggest webmail, redesigned

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hotmail

   Hotmail, by then branded Windows Live Hotmail, had hundreds of millions of accounts in 2010, many of them the first email address people ever created. A mid-2010 update...

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9. Grooveshark - Any song, on demand, free, and legally doomed

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/grooveshark

   Grooveshark let anyone stream almost any song on demand, free, from a slick Flash interface, because users uploaded the tracks themselves. It was hugely popular in 2010...

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10. Spotify - The European streaming service Americans could not get

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/spotify

    In 2010 Spotify was available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France, Spain and the Netherlands, often by invitation, with a free ad-supported tier and a premium...

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