2010 Search

28 reconstructed results for forums in the 2010 exhibit.

1. Something Awful - The forums that cost ten bucks

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/something-awful

   Something Awful's forums, where an account cost $9.95, were one of the most influential communities on the 2010 internet. Goons popularised Let's Play videos, ran early...

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

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/forums-2010

   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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3. Baidu - China's search engine, after Google walked away

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/baidu

   Baidu was already the dominant search engine in China when Google stopped censoring google.cn in March 2010 and redirected users to Hong Kong. Baidu's share of Chinese...

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4. Demotivational posters - A black border, a photo, a word in serif, and a cruel caption

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/demotivational-posters

   Demotivational posters parodied corporate motivational posters: a photo in a black frame, a one-word title and a deflating caption. Despair.com started the joke in 1998,...

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5. Deal With It - Sunglasses drop, argument over

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/deal-with-it

   The "Deal With It" GIF, a pair of pixel sunglasses sliding onto a face, originated on the Something Awful forums in 2010 and became the standard way to end an argument...

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6. Trolling - Do not feed the trolls

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/trolling

   Trolling, provoking people online for amusement, was the internet's defining pastime in 2010, from YouTube comment wars to 4chan raids to Trollface. "Don't feed the...

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7. Minecraft (Alpha and Beta) - A Java game sold from a one-man website, before it ruled the world

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/minecraft

   In 2010 Minecraft was an alpha you bought for about 10 euros from Markus "Notch" Persson's website and played in a Java window. Survival mode had arrived in 2009, Alpha...

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8. tl;dr

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-tldr

   tl;dr: Too long; didn't read. A complaint about a long post, or a one-line summary placed at the end of one. Example: "tl;dr Digg v4 sucks, we're all on Reddit now"

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9. Inception - The blockbuster of 2010, and the BWONG that launched a thousand trailers

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/inception

   Christopher Nolan's Inception, released in July 2010, was the year's most discussed film online: forums argued about the spinning top, the trailer's booming brass note...

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10. Lost: The End - The series finale the internet argued about for weeks

    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...

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11. VKontakte - Russia's Facebook, with a music library

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vkontakte

    VKontakte (VK) was the dominant social network across Russia and the former Soviet states in 2010. Its interface closely resembled early Facebook, but it let users...

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12. Photobucket - Where MySpace and forum images lived

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/photobucket

    Photobucket hosted the images that people hot-linked into MySpace profiles, forum signatures and eBay listings. In 2010 it was one of the most-visited image hosts in the...

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13. RapidShare - Wait 60 seconds, then download

    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...

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14. The animated GIF returns - Reaction GIFs, GIF sets and Tumblr's looping economy

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gif-culture

    Animated GIFs, a 1990s relic, came roaring back in 2010 thanks to Tumblr's reblog culture: reaction GIFs from TV shows, GIF sets of scenes, and glitter graphics...

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15. Let's Play videos - From Something Awful screenshots to YouTube commentary

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/lets-play

    Let's Plays, playing a game while narrating it, began as screenshot threads on Something Awful and became a YouTube video genre by 2010, with Minecraft and horror games...

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16. u mad? - A taunt implying the other person is angry, often paired with Trollface.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-u-mad

    u mad?: A taunt implying the other person is angry, often paired with Trollface. Example: "u mad bro?"

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17. cool story bro - Sarcastic dismissal of a boring or pointless post.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-cool-story-bro

    cool story bro: Sarcastic dismissal of a boring or pointless post. Example: "cool story bro"

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18. pics or it didn't happen - A demand for proof of a claim made online.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-pics-or-it-didnt-happen

    pics or it didn't happen: A demand for proof of a claim made online. Example: "you met Bieber? pics or it didn't happen"

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19. bump - Posting in a forum thread to push it back to the top of the list.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-bump

    bump: Posting in a forum thread to push it back to the top of the list. Example: "bump, still looking for a Halo: Reach group"

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20. necro - Reviving a long-dead forum thread, usually frowned upon.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-necro

    necro: Reviving a long-dead forum thread, usually frowned upon. Example: "nice necro, this thread is from 2007"

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21. sig - The signature image or text under every forum post, often an animated banner.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-sig

    sig: The signature image or text under every forum post, often an animated banner. Example: "nice sig, is that from your guild?"

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22. banhammer - A moderator's power to ban users, imagined as a hammer.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-banhammer

    banhammer: A moderator's power to ban users, imagined as a hammer. Example: "the mods brought out the banhammer"

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23. PM me - Send me a private message on the forum.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-pm

    PM me: Send me a private message on the forum. Example: "PM me for the torrent link"

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24. smh - Shaking my head; disappointment in three letters, rising on Twitter in 2010.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-smh

    smh: Shaking my head; disappointment in three letters, rising on Twitter in 2010. Example: "AT&T killed unlimited data. smh"

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25. tbh - To be honest.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-tbh

    tbh: To be honest. Example: "tbh I still use MSN"

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26. The Game

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-the-game

    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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