2010 Search

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1. Newgrounds - Everything, by everyone: the Flash portal

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   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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 - The plugin that ran YouTube, FarmVille and every banner ad

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   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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6. 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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7. 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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8. Canabalt - One button, endless rooftops

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

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

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

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    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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12. YouTube - Two billion views a day, 360p by default

    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...

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

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    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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14. Adobe Creative Suite 5 - Content-Aware Fill, and Flash CS5's blocked iPhone exporter

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/adobe-cs5

    Adobe CS5, released in April 2010, brought Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill (the demo video went viral), 64-bit Photoshop on the Mac, and Dreamweaver's CSS improvements....

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15. eBaum's World - Flash videos, viral clips and content wars

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    eBaum's World was a 2000s viral-media site that collected funny videos, Flash animations and images, often without credit, which made it notorious among creators. By...

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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. Super Meat Boy - From Newgrounds Flash game to indie hit

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    Super Meat Boy, released in October 2010 on Xbox Live Arcade and in November on Steam, grew out of a 2008 Newgrounds Flash game. Its brutal platforming and a million...

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20. MacBook Air (late 2010) - Flash storage only, and an 11-inch model for $999

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    On 20 October 2010 Apple reintroduced the MacBook Air in 11-inch and 13-inch sizes with flash storage instead of a hard drive, instant wake and no optical drive. At $999...

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21. Steve Jobs - The iPad, the iPhone 4, and the war on Flash

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    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...

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22. Alan Wake - A writer, a flashlight, and the dark

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    Remedy's Alan Wake, released in May 2010 for the Xbox 360, was a Twin Peaks-flavoured thriller about a novelist fighting shadows with a flashlight. It launched the same...

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23. The Game

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    The Game: A mind game everyone is playing; thinking about it means you just lost. Posting "I lost the game" made everyone else lose. Example: "I just lost the game"

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

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ipad-1

    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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25. HTML5 - Native video, canvas and the end of plugins, still a draft

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/html5

    HTML5 was a working draft in 2010, but the fight over Flash made it a household word. YouTube launched an HTML5 player beta in January, Apple published a showcase in...

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26. Grooveshark - Any song, on demand, free, and legally doomed

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/grooveshark

    Grooveshark let anyone stream almost any song on demand, free, from a slick Flash interface, because users uploaded the tracks themselves. It was hugely popular in 2010...

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27. USB flash drives - Sneakernet in your pocket

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    In 2010 a 4 or 8 GB USB stick was how files moved between school, home and the print shop, before cloud sync was universal. Drives came free on lanyards at conferences,...

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28. 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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29. FarmVille - The Facebook game your aunt sent you requests for

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/farmville

    FarmVille, launched by Zynga in June 2009, was the biggest game on Facebook in 2010 with tens of millions of daily players and more than 80 million monthly users at its...

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30. Angry Birds - The 99-cent game that defined the smartphone era

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    Released for iPhone in December 2009, Angry Birds became the best-selling paid app of 2010, arrived free on Android in October, and passed 50 million downloads across...

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