2010 Search

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1. Google Talk and Gmail Chat - Chat inside your inbox

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-talk

   Google Talk, and the Gmail Chat box built into the Gmail sidebar, let people message and video chat without installing anything. In 2010 it was quietly replacing AIM for...

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2. Google - Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google

   Google in 2010 was a white page with a colourful logo, one box and ten blue links. The year began with Google refusing to keep censoring results in China, added a...

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3. ttyl - Talk to you later; the sign-off of MSN Messenger and texting.

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-ttyl

   ttyl: Talk to you later; the sign-off of MSN Messenger and texting. Example: "g2g ttyl"

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4. Gmail - Conversations, labels, and 7 GB of storage

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gmail

   Gmail had left beta in 2009 and by 2010 was the email of choice for anyone under 35, with conversation threading, labels instead of folders and more than 7 GB of free...

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5. 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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6. Omegle - Talk to strangers

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/omegle

   Omegle launched in 2009 as an anonymous text chat with strangers and added video chat in March 2010 as Chatroulette's popularity surged. Its tagline, "Talk to...

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7. Google Reader - Every blog you followed, in one inbox

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-reader

   Google Reader was the RSS reader of choice for anyone who followed many blogs, with keyboard shortcuts, folders, and a Share button that made it a small social network...

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8. Google Font API (Google Fonts) - Free web fonts for everyone, launched at Google I/O

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   Google launched its Font API and directory in May 2010 with 18 open-source typefaces, including Lobster, Droid Sans, Yanone Kaffeesatz and Inconsolata. Alongside Typekit...

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9. Logitech Revue with Google TV - Google puts Chrome on your television

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   Google TV launched in October 2010 on the $299 Logitech Revue set-top box and Sony televisions, promising web search and Chrome on the big screen with a full keyboard...

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10. AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) - Buddy lists and away messages, fading fast

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/aim

    AIM had defined instant messaging in America for a decade, with its running-man icon, buddy lists, door-opening sounds and passive-aggressive away messages. By 2010 it...

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11. Orkut - Google's social network that Brazil and India loved

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/orkut

    Orkut, Google's 2004 social network, was largely ignored in the United States but was the biggest social network in Brazil and hugely popular in India through 2010. Its...

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12. iPhone 4 - Retina display, FaceTime, and the antenna you could not hold

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/iphone-4

    Announced on 7 June 2010 and on sale on 24 June, the iPhone 4 introduced the 960-by-640 Retina display, a front camera for FaceTime video calls, a 5-megapixel camera...

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13. 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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14. The Annoying Orange - "Hey Apple!": the web series that became a TV show

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/annoying-orange

    Dane Boedigheimer's Annoying Orange, a talking orange with a human mouth and eyes, was one of the biggest channels on YouTube in 2010, with episodes routinely passing...

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15. 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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16. Blogger - Blogspot blogs with orange Bs

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogger

    Blogger, Google-owned since 2003, hosted millions of free blogspot.com blogs in 2010, from personal diaries to recipe blogs to the MP3 blogs of the music-download era. A...

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17. iGoogle - Your personalised homepage of gadgets

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/igoogle

    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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18. Nexus One - Google's own Android phone, sold online

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nexus-one

    Google announced the HTC-built Nexus One on 5 January 2010 and sold it unlocked from its own web store for $529, an experiment in bypassing carriers that ended within...

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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. Android Market - 100,000 apps, and the Angry Birds free-for-all

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-market-2010

    Android Market, the store that became Google Play in 2012, passed 100,000 apps in October 2010. Its green robot storefront was messier than Apple's and full of free,...

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23. Android 2.3 Gingerbread - The version that lingered for years

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-gingerbread

    Android 2.3 Gingerbread arrived on the Nexus S in December 2010 with a darker, cleaner interface, a better keyboard, NFC support and copy-and-paste improvements. Because...

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24. 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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25. Nexus S - Gingerbread and the first NFC Android phone

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nexus-s

    The Samsung-made Nexus S launched on 16 December 2010 as the first phone with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and an NFC chip, years before contactless payments mattered. Its...

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26. Facebook - The social network at 500 million users

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/facebook

    In 2010 Facebook was six years old, had just overtaken Google as the most-visited site in the United States on some weekly measures, and passed 500 million users in...

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27. Chatroulette - Random strangers, webcam to webcam

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/chatroulette

    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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28. 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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29. 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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30. Ringtones and ringback tones - The $2.99 ringtone business in its last big years

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ringtones-2010

    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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