2010 Search

16 reconstructed results for image hosting in the 2010 exhibit.

1. Photobucket - Where MySpace and forum images lived

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/photobucket

   Photobucket hosted the images that people hot-linked into MySpace profiles, forum signatures and eBay listings. In 2010 it was one of the most-visited image hosts in the...

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2. GitHub - Social coding

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/github

   GitHub, two years old in 2010, was turning Git hosting into a social network for programmers with forks, pull requests and profile pages. Rails, jQuery and Node.js...

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3. Vimeo - Where filmmakers uploaded in HD

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vimeo

   Vimeo was the arty alternative to YouTube in 2010: cleaner pages, HD playback, no ads in the player, and a community of designers, animators and indie filmmakers. Its...

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4. Megaupload and Megavideo - File lockers, 72-minute limits and pirated TV

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/megavideo

   Megaupload and its video arm Megavideo were among the busiest sites on the internet in 2010, hosting everything from legitimate file transfers to full seasons of pirated...

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5. 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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6. RapidShare - Wait 60 seconds, then download

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/rapidshare

   RapidShare was the file locker of the late 2000s: paste a link, wait through a countdown, download one file at a time unless you paid for premium. In 2010 it was still...

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7. Sina Weibo - China's microblog, one year old

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/sina-weibo

   Launched in August 2009 after Twitter was blocked in China, Sina Weibo grew rapidly through 2010, mixing 140-character posts (which fit far more meaning in Chinese) with...

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8. 4chan - Anonymous, /b/, and the meme factory

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/4chan

   4chan's anonymous image boards, especially /b/, generated much of the internet's meme vocabulary in 2010 and gave rise to Anonymous, which attacked PayPal and Visa in...

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9. Chatroulette - Random strangers, webcam to webcam

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/chatroulette

   Chatroulette paired you with a random stranger over webcam and let either of you hit Next. Built by 17-year-old Andrey Ternovskiy in late 2009, it exploded in February...

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10. 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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11. Bing - Microsoft's one-year-old "decision engine"

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bing

    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 2010 it took over...

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12. Craigslist - Plain blue links that killed newspaper classifieds

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/craigslist

    Craigslist looked exactly like it had in the 1990s: a list of blue links on a white page, city by city, with apartments, jobs, used furniture and missed connections. In...

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13. 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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14. DeviantArt - The largest online art community

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/deviantart

    DeviantArt was ten years old in 2010 and the home of fan art, digital painting, photography and Photoshop brushes, with well over ten million members. Its green pages,...

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15. Gizmodo and Gawker Media - The blog that bought a lost iPhone prototype

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gizmodo

    Gizmodo, Gawker Media's gadget blog, published the biggest tech story of 2010 on 19 April: photos and a teardown of a lost iPhone 4 prototype bought from someone who...

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16. I Can Has Cheezburger and the Cheezburger Network - LOLcats as a media company

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cheezburger-network

    I Can Has Cheezburger turned LOLcats into a business, and by 2010 the Cheezburger Network ran dozens of sites, including FAIL Blog and Memebase, publishing...

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