Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed
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...
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Section 4
Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.
27 reconstructed results for blog in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for blog
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogger
Blogger, Google-owned since 2003, hosted millions of free blogspot.com blogs in 2010, from personal diaries to recipe blogs to the MP3 blogs of the music-download era. A...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogosphere-2010
In 2010 blogs were still the intellectual centre of the web: personal blogs on Blogger and WordPress, mommy blogs, MP3 blogs, political blogs, and professional blog...
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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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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hype-machine
Hype Machine tracked hundreds of MP3 blogs and let you stream whatever they had just posted, with a Popular chart that could break a band. In 2010 it was the front page...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fail
"FAIL", stamped over a photo of a mishap, was 2010's favourite one-word verdict, with "epic fail" for the worst cases and "WIN" for their opposite. FAIL Blog published a...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
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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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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/x-all-the-y
In June 2010, Allie Brosh's blog Hyperbole and a Half published "This is Why I'll Never be an Adult", with a crudely drawn figure shouting "CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!" The...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-viral
viral: Spreading rapidly by sharing; "going viral" was the ambition of every 2010 video, ad and blog post. Example: "the Old Spice ad went viral overnight"
SlangEditorialReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/techcrunch
TechCrunch was the loudest voice covering Silicon Valley start-ups in 2010, from Michael Arrington's scoops to the Disrupt conference. AOL announced it was buying the...
WebsiteVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/webcomics-2010
xkcd's stick-figure science jokes, The Oatmeal's ranting infographics and Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half were among the most-shared things on the 2010 web, spreading...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/digg
Digg let users "digg" stories onto a front page that could crash a small website with traffic. In August 2010, Digg version 4 removed favourite features, let publishers...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/youtube
YouTube celebrated its fifth birthday in May 2010 by announcing more than two billion views a day. Users uploaded 24 hours of video every minute in March and 35 hours a...
WebsiteVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/lost-finale
Lost ended on 23 May 2010 with a two-and-a-half-hour finale watched by about 13.5 million Americans and dissected on forums, Twitter and recap blogs for weeks. The...
MediaSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/markus-persson
Markus Persson, known as Notch, developed Minecraft largely alone in 2010, posting updates on his blog and Twitter and selling the alpha from his website. By the end of...
PersonSupportedReconstructed result
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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-reader
Google Reader was the RSS reader of choice for anyone who followed many blogs, with keyboard shortcuts, folders, and a Share button that made it a small social network...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wordpress-com
WordPress powered a large share of the blogs and news sites of 2010, and WordPress.com offered hosted blogs with themes and stats for free. WordPress 3.0, released in...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/know-your-meme
Know Your Meme documented the origin and spread of memes with the seriousness of an encyclopedia and the deadpan of a science show. Started by the Rocketboom video blog...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/steve-jobs
Steve Jobs had his last great year of product launches in 2010: the iPad in January, the "Thoughts on Flash" letter in April, the iPhone 4 in June, the Antennagate press...
PersonVerifiedReconstructed result
Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed
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...
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The former Ask Jeeves gives up on search
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...
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China's search engine, after Google walked away
Baidu was already the dominant search engine in China when Google stopped censoring google.cn in March 2010 and redirected users to Hong Kong....
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Microsoft's one-year-old "decision engine"
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...
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A computational knowledge engine
Launched in May 2009, Wolfram|Alpha answered questions by computing rather than searching: type a maths problem, a date, or two cities and it...
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The portal: mail, news, Answers and Flickr
Yahoo! was still one of the most-visited sites on Earth in 2010, thanks to Yahoo Mail, the news-heavy portal homepage, Yahoo Answers, Flickr and...
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Historical search result pages cannot be reproduced faithfully: they depended on the day, the location, the logged-in account and an index that no longer exists. Instead of pretending, this page searches the exhibit's own records and presents them in the visual language of a 2010 results page. Each result links to an entry with its sources and confidence label.