2010 Search

32 reconstructed results for huffington post in the 2010 exhibit.

1. The Huffington Post - The blog that became a newspaper

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/huffington-post

   The Huffington Post mixed aggregated news, celebrity bloggers and huge headlines into the busiest news blog of 2010, with comment sections in the thousands. Its traffic...

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2. 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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3. Hype Machine - The MP3 blog aggregator

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hype-machine

   Hype Machine tracked hundreds of MP3 blogs and let you stream whatever they had just posted, with a Popular chart that could break a band. In 2010 it was the front page...

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

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   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. lurk moar - Read more before posting; the 4chan reply to a newcomer's naive question.

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   lurk moar: Read more before posting; the 4chan reply to a newcomer's naive question. Example: "lurk moar before you ask what a rage comic is"

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

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

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

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

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

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/tumblr

   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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10. 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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11. tl;dr

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    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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12. friend / unfriend

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-friend

    friend / unfriend: To add or remove someone on Facebook; "unfriend" was the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 word of the year. Example: "she unfriended me after the...

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13. inb4 - In before: predicting a reply before it arrives.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-inb4

    inb4: In before: predicting a reply before it arrives. Example: "inb4 someone posts the Fail Whale"

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14. like (verb)

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    like (verb): To click the thumbs-up on a post; from April 2010 also on any website with the Like button. Example: "37 people like this"

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15. wall / wall post

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    wall / wall post: The public message area of a Facebook profile; writing on someone's wall was the 2010 equivalent of a public shout-out. Example: "happy birthday!!!...

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16. tweet / RT

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    tweet / RT: A Twitter post, and RT for retweet: repeating someone's tweet, by hand ("RT @user") or, from late 2009, with the button. Example: "RT @kimmel: my favorite...

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17. reblog

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    reblog: To repost someone's Tumblr post to your own blog, with or without commentary; Tumblr's core verb. Example: "this got 40,000 notes after one reblog"

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18. viral

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    viral: Spreading rapidly by sharing; "going viral" was the ambition of every 2010 video, ad and blog post. Example: "the Old Spice ad went viral overnight"

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19. 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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20. Reddit - The front page of the internet, before it was

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/reddit

    In 2010 Reddit was a spartan, text-heavy site owned by Condé Nast, far smaller than Digg at the start of the year. Digg's disastrous August redesign sent a wave of users...

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21. 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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22. Instagram - Square photos, filters, iPhone only

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/instagram

    Instagram launched on 6 October 2010 as an iPhone-only app for square photos with retro filters and reached a million users by December. Its filters, such as X-Pro II,...

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23. Old Spice: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like - "I'm on a horse."

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/old-spice-man-your-man-could-smell-like

    Wieden+Kennedy's Old Spice advert, starring Isaiah Mustafa in a single unbroken shot, was posted to YouTube in February 2010 and became the year's most-shared...

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24. 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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25. Bitcoin in 2010 - Ten thousand coins for two pizzas

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bitcoin-2010

    Bitcoin was a year old and worth almost nothing in 2010. On 22 May, Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, the first recorded purchase with the currency. The Mt....

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26. Forever Alone - The rage face for loneliness, born in May 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/forever-alone

    Forever Alone, a lumpy, tearful rage face first posted in a comic about a fake date in May 2010, became one of the year's most-used images: the face of solitary Friday...

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

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/livejournal

    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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28. Chatroulette Piano Improv (Merton) - A hooded pianist serenading strangers

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    In March 2010 a hooded man known as Merton posted videos of himself improvising songs about the strangers Chatroulette paired him with, and their reactions. It was the...

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29. Markus "Notch" Persson - The one-man studio behind Minecraft

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/markus-persson

    Markus Persson, known as Notch, developed Minecraft largely alone in 2010, posting updates on his blog and Twitter and selling the alpha from his website. By the end of...

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30. DeviantArt - The largest online art community

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/deviantart

    DeviantArt was ten years old in 2010 and the home of fan art, digital painting, photography and Photoshop brushes, with well over ten million members. Its green pages,...

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