2010 Search

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

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hard-drives-2010

   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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2. A typical 2010 Windows laptop - Core 2 Duo, 4 GB of RAM, a 320 GB hard drive and a DVD burner

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   The mainstream laptop of 2010, from Dell, HP, Toshiba or Acer, ran Windows 7 Home Premium on an Intel Core 2 Duo or the new Core i3, with 3 or 4 GB of RAM, a 250 to 500...

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

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/macbook-air-2010

   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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4. Netbooks - Tiny, cheap Atom laptops at their peak, then killed by the iPad

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/netbooks

   Netbooks, the 10-inch, $300 laptops with Intel Atom chips that had exploded in 2008 and 2009, peaked in 2010. They ran Windows 7 Starter or XP slowly, had cramped...

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5. Windows Vista - The one everyone skipped

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   Windows Vista, released to consumers in 2007, was widely disliked for its User Account Control prompts, driver problems and heavy hardware needs. By 2010 it was already...

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6. 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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7. Webcams - Grainy 640-by-480 video for Skype, Chatroulette and vlogs

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   Most 2010 laptops had a built-in low-resolution webcam, and desktops used a Logitech clip-on, which made Skype calls, MSN video chat, Chatroulette and YouTube vlogging...

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8. Amazon - Books, Kindle, and a store that sold everything

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/amazon

   Amazon in 2010 was the everything store with a cluttered tan-and-orange homepage, two-day shipping for $79-a-year Prime members, and a Kindle business so successful that...

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9. CollegeHumor - Sketch comedy before YouTube channels

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/collegehumor

   CollegeHumor produced original comedy videos, such as Jake and Amir and Hardly Working, and hosted user-submitted pictures and articles. In 2010 it was one of the few...

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10. Amazon Kindle (3rd generation) - $139 e-reader, the one that made Kindle mainstream

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/kindle-3

    The third-generation Kindle, later called the Kindle Keyboard, shipped in August 2010 with a sharper E Ink screen, a smaller body and a $139 Wi-Fi-only price. Amazon...

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11. 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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12. Kinect for Xbox 360 - You are the controller

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/kinect

    Kinect launched on 4 November 2010 in North America as a $149 camera bar that tracked your whole body and voice for the Xbox 360. Microsoft sold eight million units in...

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13. CityVille - Zynga's fastest-growing game ever, December 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cityville

    CityVille launched on Facebook on 2 December 2010 and passed 20 million monthly users within two weeks, faster than any Facebook game before it. It was FarmVille with a...

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14. Sina Weibo - China's microblog, one year old

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/sina-weibo

    Launched in August 2009 after Twitter was blocked in China, Sina Weibo grew rapidly through 2010, mixing 140-character posts (which fit far more meaning in Chinese) with...

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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. 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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17. 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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18. Xbox 360 S - The slim, glossy 360 with built-in Wi-Fi

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/xbox-360-s

    Announced at E3 in June 2010 and in stores days later, the redesigned Xbox 360 S was slimmer, quieter, had built-in Wi-Fi and a 250 GB drive, and included a port for...

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19. PlayStation 3 Slim - Blu-ray, free online play, and the year the Other OS vanished

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/playstation-3-slim

    The PS3 Slim, released in 2009 at $299, was Sony's console through 2010, with a Blu-ray drive, free PlayStation Network play and exclusives like God of War III, Heavy...

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20. USB flash drives - Sneakernet in your pocket

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/usb-flash-drive

    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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