2010 Search

15 reconstructed results for ask.com in the 2010 exhibit.

1. Ask.com - The former Ask Jeeves gives up on search

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ask-com

   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 November 2010 it...

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2. Formspring - Ask me anything, anonymously

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/formspring

   Formspring launched in late 2009 and spread through high schools in 2010: a page where anyone could ask you questions, often anonymously, and you answered in public. It...

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3. Reddit - The front page of the internet, before it was

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/reddit

   In 2010 Reddit was a spartan, text-heavy site owned by Condé Nast, far smaller than Digg at the start of the year. Digg's disastrous August redesign sent a wave of users...

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4. Tumblr - Reblogs, GIFs and the dark blue dashboard

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/tumblr

   Tumblr grew explosively in 2010. Its dashboard, a dark blue page of posts from the blogs you followed, made reblogging and animated GIFs the currency of a new creative...

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5. Quora - Questions answered by people who were there

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/quora

   Quora opened to the public in June 2010, founded by two former Facebook engineers. Its promise was answers from people with first-hand knowledge, and in 2010 Silicon...

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6. Omegle - Talk to strangers

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/omegle

   Omegle launched in 2009 as an anonymous text chat with strangers and added video chat in March 2010 as Chatroulette's popularity surged. Its tagline, "Talk to...

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7. Stack Overflow - Programming answers, upvoted

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/stack-overflow

   Stack Overflow, launched in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, had become the default place programmers looked for answers by 2010. The reputation system,...

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8. SoundCloud - Waveforms and timed comments

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/soundcloud

   SoundCloud, founded in Berlin in 2007, was becoming the place for producers and DJs to share tracks in 2010. Its orange waveform player, with comments pinned to moments...

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9. Orkut - Google's social network that Brazil and India loved

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/orkut

   Orkut, Google's 2004 social network, was largely ignored in the United States but was the biggest social network in Brazil and hugely popular in India through 2010. Its...

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10. Flickr - Five billion photos, and the iPhone as top camera

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/flickr

    Flickr passed five billion uploaded photos in September 2010 and was the serious photographer's social network: albums called sets, Creative Commons licences, groups for...

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11. CollegeHumor - Sketch comedy before YouTube channels

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/collegehumor

    CollegeHumor produced original comedy videos, such as Jake and Amir and Hardly Working, and hosted user-submitted pictures and articles. In 2010 it was one of the few...

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12. Wolfram|Alpha - A computational knowledge engine

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wolfram-alpha

    Launched in May 2009, Wolfram|Alpha answered questions by computing rather than searching: type a maths problem, a date, or two cities and it returned calculated...

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13. The Huffington Post - The blog that became a newspaper

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/huffington-post

    The Huffington Post mixed aggregated news, celebrity bloggers and huge headlines into the busiest news blog of 2010, with comment sections in the thousands. Its traffic...

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14. Newgrounds - Everything, by everyone: the Flash portal

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/newgrounds

    Newgrounds was the original home of Flash games and animations, where amateur creators uploaded movies and games for the community to rate. In 2010 its Flash Portal...

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15. Miniclip - Free games, and the school-computer favourite

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/miniclip

    Miniclip was where school computer labs went to play 8 Ball Pool, Club Penguin's ancestors and hundreds of other Flash games. In 2010 it claimed tens of millions of...

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