2010 Search

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1. Cut the Rope - Feed Om Nom: a million sales in ten days

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   ZeptoLab's Cut the Rope launched in October 2010 and sold a million copies in ten days, one of the fastest-selling iPhone games to that point. Its physics puzzles and...

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2. The App Store in 2010 - "There's an app for that": 300,000 apps and counting

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   Apple's App Store passed 300,000 apps in late 2010 and had served billions of downloads since opening in 2008; the American Dialect Society named "app" its word of the...

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3. WikiLeaks - Collateral Murder, the war logs and Cablegate

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   WikiLeaks defined the news in 2010. It published the Collateral Murder helicopter video in April, the Afghan War Diary in July, the Iraq War Logs in October, and began...

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4. Hard drives and the first SSDs - A terabyte for under $100, or 80 GB of flash for twice that

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   In 2010 a 1 TB desktop hard drive cost under $100, but solid-state drives were still exotic: an 80 to 128 GB SSD cost $200 to $300. Enthusiasts installed them as boot...

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5. Anonymous and Operation Payback - Guy Fawkes masks, LOIC, and the WikiLeaks payment war

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   Anonymous, the loose collective born on 4chan, spent 2010 attacking anti-piracy groups and then, in December, the companies that cut off WikiLeaks: PayPal, Visa and...

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6. app

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   app: A smartphone application; the American Dialect Society's 2010 word of the year. "There's an app for that." Example: "is there an app for that?"

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7. I see what you did there - Acknowledging a pun or a sly joke.

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   I see what you did there: Acknowledging a pun or a sly joke. Example: "'Bed Intruder Song' on the Billboard charts... I see what you did there"

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8. Pet Society - Playfish's cute pets, bought by EA

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   Pet Society, from Playfish, let you dress up a pet, decorate its house and visit friends' pets, and was one of the largest Facebook games of 2010. Electronic Arts had...

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

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   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. Wolfram|Alpha - A computational knowledge engine

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    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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11. Nintendo Wii - Still the best-selling console, four years on

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    The Wii remained the best-selling home console in 2010 thanks to Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Just Dance 2 and Super Mario Galaxy 2. Its motion controls inspired both...

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12. Sad Keanu - A paparazzi photo of Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich, Photoshopped everywhere

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    A May 2010 paparazzi photo of Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich alone on a New York bench became Sad Keanu in June, when Reddit and 4chan users cut him out and pasted him...

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13. iGoogle - Your personalised homepage of gadgets

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    iGoogle let you build a homepage of widgets: Gmail, weather, news, a to-do list and thousands of gadgets, with themes that changed with the time of day. In 2010 it was...

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14. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) - Linux for people, with a new purple theme

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    Ubuntu 10.04, released in April 2010, was the Linux distribution most likely to be found on a netbook or a curious student's dual-boot laptop. It introduced a...

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15. poke

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    poke: A Facebook feature that notified someone you had poked them, and nothing else. Nobody knew what it meant. Example: "why does my aunt keep poking me"

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16. Rule 34

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    Rule 34: "If it exists, there is porn of it": one of the Rules of the Internet, from a 2003 webcomic. Example: "Rule 34, no exceptions"

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17. Foursquare - Check in, become the mayor

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    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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18. The Pirate Bay - The torrent tracker that would not die

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    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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19. Twitter - 140 characters and the Fail Whale

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    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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20. Tumblr - Reblogs, GIFs and the dark blue dashboard

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    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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21. Chatroulette - Random strangers, webcam to webcam

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    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...

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22. iPad - A 9.7-inch tablet nobody knew they needed

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    Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad on 27 January 2010 and it went on sale in the US on 3 April, selling 300,000 on the first day and a million within a month. It ran iPhone...

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23. The YouTube stars of 2010 - Ray William Johnson, Smosh, nigahiga, Fred, Shane Dawson

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    In 2010 the most-subscribed YouTube channels belonged to comedians who edited themselves in their bedrooms: Ray William Johnson's =3 viral-video reviews, Smosh's...

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24. Call of Duty: Black Ops - $360 million in 24 hours, the biggest launch in entertainment history

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    Call of Duty: Black Ops, released on 9 November 2010, sold about 5.6 million copies in its first 24 hours in the US and UK, worth $360 million, then the biggest...

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25. Rage comics - FFFFFUUUU, Trollface, Forever Alone, Me Gusta, Y U NO

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

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

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

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

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    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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30. Ringtones and ringback tones - The $2.99 ringtone business in its last big years

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    Ringtones were still a multi-billion-dollar business in 2010, sold by carriers and services like Myxer and Jamster, and Myxer was one of Google's fastest-rising searches...

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