2010 Search

42 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. lurk moar - Read more before posting; the 4chan reply to a newcomer's naive question.

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-lurk-moar

   lurk moar: Read more before posting; the 4chan reply to a newcomer's naive question. Example: "lurk moar before you ask what a rage comic is"

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3. 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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4. Browser toolbars - Yahoo, Google, Ask, AVG, MyWebSearch... stacked five deep

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/browser-toolbars

   Toolbars were the plague of the 2010 browser: bundled with Java updates, antivirus software and free downloads, they stacked below the address bar until the page was a...

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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. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. Rage comics - FFFFFUUUU, Trollface, Forever Alone, Me Gusta, Y U NO

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/rage-comics

    Rage comics were crude, four-panel MS Paint strips about everyday frustrations, drawn with a shared cast of stick-figure faces. Born on 4chan in 2008, they peaked in...

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12. Forever Alone - The rage face for loneliness, born in May 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/forever-alone

    Forever Alone, a lumpy, tearful rage face first posted in a comic about a fake date in May 2010, became one of the year's most-used images: the face of solitary Friday...

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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. tl;dr

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-tldr

    tl;dr: Too long; didn't read. A complaint about a long post, or a one-line summary placed at the end of one. Example: "tl;dr Digg v4 sucks, we're all on Reddit now"

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17. troll / trolling

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-troll

    troll / trolling: Someone who provokes others online for fun, or the act of doing so. "Don't feed the trolls." Example: "he's just trolling the YouTube comments"

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18. Android 2.2 Froyo - Flash on a phone, tethering, and a huge speed boost

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-froyo

    Android 2.2, announced at Google I/O in May 2010, made Android phones two to five times faster with a JIT compiler, added Wi-Fi hotspot tethering, Chrome-to-Phone, apps...

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19. Internet Explorer 8 - The default browser of Windows 7 and roughly a third of the web

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/internet-explorer-8

    Internet Explorer 8, bundled with Windows 7, was the single most-used browser version of 2010. It had tabs, a separate search box beside the address bar, Accelerators,...

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20. Forum culture - vBulletin, phpBB, signatures, post counts and the ban hammer

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/forums-2010

    Before Reddit and Discord ate them, forums were where the internet talked in 2010: vBulletin and phpBB boards for every hobby, game and band, with avatars, signature...

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21. Trollface - Problem?

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/trollface

    Trollface, a grinning MS Paint face drawn by Carlos Ramirez in September 2008, became the universal symbol of internet trolling by 2010. It appeared at the end of rage...

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22. Me Gusta - The face for enjoying something you should not

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/me-gusta

    Me Gusta, a bulging-eyed face drawn by Matt Oswald in March 2010, was the rage comic reaction for guilty pleasure. It spread through Reddit and Tumblr through the year...

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23. Y U NO Guy - "Y U NO" + any complaint, in broken English

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/y-u-no

    Y U NO Guy, a rage face taken from a manga panel, became a 2010 image macro for exasperated questions: "Facebook, Y U NO let me dislike?" It was one of the first rage...

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24. brb - Be right back; announced in chat before stepping away from MSN or AIM.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-brb

    brb: Be right back; announced in chat before stepping away from MSN or AIM. Example: "brb mom needs the computer"

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25. 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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26. 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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27. reblog

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-reblog

    reblog: To repost someone's Tumblr post to your own blog, with or without commentary; Tumblr's core verb. Example: "this got 40,000 notes after one reblog"

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28. totes / obvs

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-totes

    totes / obvs: Totally and obviously, shortened; the texting abbreviations that were about to become spoken slang. Example: "totes coming to the party, obvs"

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29. 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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30. 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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