2010 Search

35 reconstructed results for browser games in the 2010 exhibit.

1. Armor Games - Sponsor of the best Flash games

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   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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2. 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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3. Addicting Games - Nickelodeon's Flash arcade

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   Addicting Games, owned by Nickelodeon's parent Viacom, was one of the most-visited casual game sites in 2010, with categories like Shooting, Puzzle and Sports and a...

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4. Miniclip - Free games, and the school-computer favourite

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

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   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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7. 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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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. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. Robot Unicorn Attack - Always, I wanna be with you: the Flash game of 2010

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

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    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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. Opera 10.5 and Opera 11 - Small share, big ideas: Turbo, Speed Dial and tab stacking

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    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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22. Amnesia: The Dark Descent - The horror game that made YouTube scream

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    Frictional Games' Amnesia, released in September 2010, gave players no weapons, only a lantern and a sanity meter. Its terror made it the perfect subject for webcam...

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23. Bejeweled Blitz - One-minute matches and a weekly friends leaderboard

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    PopCap's Bejeweled Blitz turned the match-three classic into 60-second rounds with a leaderboard of your Facebook friends that reset every week. In 2010 it was one of...

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24. 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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25. 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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26. Qzone - China's biggest social network, built on QQ

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    Tencent's Qzone, attached to the QQ messenger, was by most measures the largest social network in China in 2010, with hundreds of millions of active users decorating...

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

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    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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28. Plants vs. Zombies - Tower defence with peashooters, on every platform in 2010

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    PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies, released for PC in 2009, arrived on the iPhone in February 2010 (selling 300,000 copies in nine days), then the iPad, Xbox 360 and DS. Its...

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29. Civilization V - Hexes, one unit per tile, and one more turn

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    Civilization V, released in September 2010, moved the strategy series to hexagonal tiles and one-unit-per-tile combat, and became a Steam fixture for the next decade. It...

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30. Feature phones - What most of the world actually carried

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/feature-phones

    Smartphones were still a minority in 2010: roughly one in five phones sold worldwide that year was a smartphone, according to Gartner. Most people carried feature...

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