2010 Search

34 reconstructed results for browser in the 2010 exhibit.

1. Browser plugins: Flash, Java, Silverlight, QuickTime - The web ran on plugins, and every one of them wanted an update

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/browser-plugins

   In 2010 the browser was a host for plugins: Flash for video and games, Java for RuneScape and bank sites, Silverlight for Netflix, QuickTime and RealPlayer for media,...

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2. 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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3. 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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4. RockMelt - The social browser backed by Marc Andreessen

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/rockmelt

   RockMelt, released as a beta in November 2010, was a Chromium-based browser with Facebook friends down the left edge and feeds down the right, built on the idea that the...

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5. Firefox 3.6 - The alternative browser with a thousand extensions

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/firefox-3-6

   Firefox 3.6, released on 21 January 2010, was the browser of choice for people who cared, with about 30 percent of worldwide usage. It added Personas skins, plugin-crash...

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6. Google Chrome (versions 4 to 8) - The fast newcomer with tabs on top and one box for everything

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-chrome

   Chrome went from about 5 percent of worldwide browser usage at the start of 2010 to roughly 15 percent by December. Version 4 added extensions in January, version 5 in...

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7. Opera Mini - The browser that made feature-phone internet bearable

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/opera-mini

   Opera Mini compressed pages on Opera's servers before sending them to the phone, which made it the most-used mobile browser in the world in 2010, especially on feature...

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8. Kongregate - Flash games with achievements, bought by GameStop

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/kongregate

   Kongregate hosted thousands of free browser games with badges, chat rooms beside every game and a levelling system for players. GameStop bought it in July 2010, betting...

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9. 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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10. Internet Explorer 6 - Nine years old, still used by millions, hated by developers

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/internet-explorer-6

    IE6, released in 2001, still had a meaningful share of browser use in 2010 (around a tenth worldwide, concentrated in China and corporate offices). Google dropped...

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11. Safari 5 - Reader mode and extensions, in brushed aluminium

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/safari-5

    Safari 5, released on 7 June 2010 for Mac and Windows, added Reader (a clean article view), extensions, Bing as a search option and a faster Nitro JavaScript engine. On...

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12. Opera 10.5 and Opera 11 - Small share, big ideas: Turbo, Speed Dial and tab stacking

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/opera-10-5

    Opera had only around 2 percent of desktop browser usage in 2010 but kept inventing features others copied: Speed Dial, mouse gestures, Opera Turbo compression, and, in...

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13. Pixel Dash (playable recreation) - An original one-button runner in the style of 2010 Flash games

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/pixel-dash

    Pixel Dash is this exhibit's own, original browser game, written for the time machine to show what playing a Flash game felt like in 2010: a fake preloader, a sponsor...

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14. Internet Explorer 9 Beta - Hardware acceleration and HTML5, in a minimal new frame

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/internet-explorer-9-beta

    Released on 15 September 2010, the IE9 beta was Microsoft's answer to Chrome: a stripped-back interface with tabs beside the address bar, GPU-accelerated rendering, and...

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15. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 - The plugin that ran YouTube, FarmVille and every banner ad

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/flash-player-10-1

    Flash Player 10.1, released in June 2010, ran the YouTube player, Hulu, Pandora, FarmVille, every browser game and most animated adverts; Adobe said it was installed on...

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16. Robot Unicorn Attack - Always, I wanna be with you: the Flash game of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/robot-unicorn-attack

    Adult Swim's Robot Unicorn Attack, released in February 2010, was the Flash game of the year: a rainbow-trailing robot unicorn dashing through a pastel dreamscape to...

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17. Microsoft Office 2010 - The Ribbon everywhere, and Office Web Apps in the browser

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/office-2010

    Office 2010, released to consumers on 15 June 2010, put the Ribbon interface in every application, added the Backstage file view, and launched free Office Web Apps that...

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18. The Impossible Quiz - The trick-question Flash game every classroom knew

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/the-impossible-quiz

    Splapp-me-do's The Impossible Quiz, from 2007, was still one of the most-played Flash games on school computers in 2010: 110 trick questions, three lives, and skips. It...

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19. Line Rider - Draw a line, watch the sledder ride it

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/line-rider

    Line Rider, the 2006 Flash toy where you draw slopes for a tiny sledder, was still a school-computer staple in 2010, and elaborate Line Rider tracks synchronised to...

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20. Armor Games - Sponsor of the best Flash games

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/armor-games

    Armor Games sponsored and hosted many of the highest-quality Flash games of the era, including tower-defence hits and puzzle games, with a brown-and-orange site and a...

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21. Google Docs - Word processing in the browser, shared with a link

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-docs

    Google Docs let students write group projects in the same document at the same time, which felt like magic in 2010. In January it began storing any file type, and in...

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22. Cr-48 Chrome OS notebook - Google's unbranded laptop that was only a browser

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/chrome-os-cr48

    On 7 December 2010 Google unveiled Chrome OS and shipped the matte-black, logo-free Cr-48 to testers in a pilot programme. The laptop ran nothing but the Chrome browser,...

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23. Canabalt - One button, endless rooftops

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/canabalt

    Canabalt, made by Adam Saltsman in 2009 for a Flash game jam, invented the one-button endless runner: a man in a suit sprinting across rooftops as a city collapses. In...

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24. Happy Wheels - Ragdoll physics and a level editor, born in 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/happy-wheels

    Jim Bonacci's Happy Wheels, released in June 2010, was a gory ragdoll physics game with a level editor that let players share courses. It spread through Flash portals in...

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25. Bloons Tower Defense 4 - Monkeys, darts and the tower-defence craze

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bloons-td-4

    Ninja Kiwi's Bloons TD 4, released in late 2009, was one of the most-played Flash games of 2010 on Kongregate, Newgrounds and Ninja Kiwi's own site. Tower defence was...

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26. Windows 7 - The Windows people actually liked, one year old

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-7

    Windows 7 shipped in October 2009 and by the end of 2010 ran roughly a quarter of the world's desktop web traffic, while Windows XP still ran about half. Its Aero glass...

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27. 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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28. Windows XP - Nine years old and still the most-used OS on Earth

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-xp

    Windows XP, released in 2001, was still the most common desktop operating system in 2010, running about half of the world's desktop web traffic. Its green Start button...

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29. jQuery 1.4 - Write less, do more: the JavaScript library on most of the web

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/jquery

    jQuery 1.4, released in January 2010, was the JavaScript library almost every site used to animate menus, load content with Ajax and paper over browser differences,...

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30. µTorrent - The tiny BitTorrent client on every second PC

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/utorrent

    µTorrent was the lightweight BitTorrent client most people used in 2010 to download Linux ISOs, and everything else. Its green-and-white window of progress bars, seeds...

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