2010 Search

12 reconstructed results for world cup in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. eBaum's World - Flash videos, viral clips and content wars

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ebaums-world

   eBaum's World was a 2000s viral-media site that collected funny videos, Flash animations and images, often without credit, which made it notorious among creators. By...

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3. Club Penguin - Disney's virtual world for kids

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/club-penguin

   Club Penguin was the safe, moderated virtual world where children waddled around as penguins, played mini-games and decorated igloos. Disney had bought it in 2007, and...

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4. RuneScape - The browser MMO played in the school library

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/runescape

   RuneScape ran in a browser with Java, needed no download, and had millions of players in 2010. Its low-polygon world, skill grinding, Wilderness PvP and player-run...

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5. 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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6. Wikipedia - Three and a half million articles and a new default skin

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wikipedia

   Wikipedia was nine years old in 2010 and by far the largest reference work ever assembled, with the English edition approaching 3.5 million articles. In May the site...

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7. 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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8. hi5 - Big in Latin America and Portugal

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hi5

   hi5 was one of the world's largest social networks in the mid-2000s, especially in Latin America, Portugal, Romania and Thailand. In 2010 it was pivoting toward social...

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9. LiveJournal - Communities, moods and friends-only posts

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/livejournal

   LiveJournal was the blogging community that fandoms, writers and teenagers had used since 1999. Owned by Russian company SUP since 2007, it was in slow decline in the...

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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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