2010 Search

12 reconstructed results for torrents in the 2010 exhibit.

1. The Pirate Bay - The torrent tracker that would not die

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/the-pirate-bay

   The Pirate Bay was the world's best-known BitTorrent index in 2010, a year after its founders were convicted in Sweden. Its pirate-ship logo, comment threads and "legal...

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2. 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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3. 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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4. VKontakte - Russia's Facebook, with a music library

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vkontakte

   VKontakte (VK) was the dominant social network across Russia and the former Soviet states in 2010. Its interface closely resembled early Facebook, but it let users...

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5. iGoogle - Your personalised homepage of gadgets

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/igoogle

   iGoogle let you build a homepage of widgets: Gmail, weather, news, a to-do list and thousands of gadgets, with themes that changed with the time of day. In 2010 it was...

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6. Foursquare - Check in, become the mayor

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/foursquare

   Foursquare made 2010 the year of the check-in. Users broadcast their location to friends, collected badges, and fought to become the "mayor" of their coffee shop. The...

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7. Twitter - 140 characters and the Fail Whale

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/twitter

   Twitter turned four in 2010 and became the internet's newswire. Users sent about 50 million tweets a day in February and roughly 90 million a day by September, the...

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8. 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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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. WikiLeaks - Collateral Murder, the war logs and Cablegate

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wikileaks

    WikiLeaks defined the news in 2010. It published the Collateral Murder helicopter video in April, the Afghan War Diary in July, the Iraq War Logs in October, and began...

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11. 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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12. Bebo - The UK and Ireland's teen network, sold for a pittance

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bebo

    Bebo had been the biggest social network among teenagers in the UK and Ireland, and AOL bought it for $850 million in 2008. In June 2010 AOL sold it to Criterion Capital...

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