2010 Search

60 reconstructed results for hyperbole and a half in the 2010 exhibit.

1. Webcomics: xkcd, The Oatmeal, Hyperbole and a Half - The comics that lived in Google Reader

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/webcomics-2010

   xkcd's stick-figure science jokes, The Oatmeal's ranting infographics and Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half were among the most-shared things on the 2010 web, spreading...

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2. "X all the Y!" (Clean all the things) - From Hyperbole and a Half to every to-do list

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   In June 2010, Allie Brosh's blog Hyperbole and a Half published "This is Why I'll Never be an Adult", with a crudely drawn figure shouting "CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!" The...

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3. Fruit Ninja - Swipe to slice, avoid the bombs

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   Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja, released in April 2010, made the touchscreen itself the game: swipe to slice flying fruit, avoid bombs. It was one of the top-selling iPhone...

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4. g2g - Got to go; the other half of "g2g ttyl".

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-g2g

   g2g: Got to go; the other half of "g2g ttyl". Example: "g2g dinner"

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5. Wikipedia - Three and a half million articles and a new default skin

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   Wikipedia was nine years old in 2010 and by far the largest reference work ever assembled, with the English edition approaching 3.5 million articles. In May the site...

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6. 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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7. Windows 7 - The Windows people actually liked, one year old

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-7

   Windows 7 shipped in October 2009 and by the end of 2010 ran roughly a quarter of the world's desktop web traffic, while Windows XP still ran about half. Its Aero glass...

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8. Groupon - One deal a day, and a $6 billion offer refused

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/groupon

   Groupon emailed one local deal a day, half-price yoga classes or restaurant vouchers, that only activated if enough people bought in. It was called the fastest-growing...

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9. Windows XP - Nine years old and still the most-used OS on Earth

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   Windows XP, released in 2001, was still the most common desktop operating system in 2010, running about half of the world's desktop web traffic. Its green Start button...

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10. 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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11. MP3 culture - Ripping CDs, LimeWire folders, mislabelled tracks and the 4 GB iPod

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mp3-culture

    In 2010 music was files: ripped from CDs, downloaded from LimeWire or torrents, bought from iTunes, traded on USB sticks, and organised (badly) in iTunes or Winamp. A...

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12. Internet Explorer 8 - The default browser of Windows 7 and roughly a third of the web

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/internet-explorer-8

    Internet Explorer 8, bundled with Windows 7, was the single most-used browser version of 2010. It had tabs, a separate search box beside the address bar, Accelerators,...

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13. iPhone 3GS - The 2009 iPhone that most iPhone owners still carried

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/iphone-3gs

    For the first half of 2010 the iPhone 3GS was Apple's flagship, and after June it stayed on sale at $99 as the entry model. Its plastic curved back, 3.5-inch 480-by-320...

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14. 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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15. 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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16. Bebo - The UK and Ireland's teen network, sold for a pittance

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bebo

    Bebo had been the biggest social network among teenagers in the UK and Ireland, and AOL bought it for $850 million in 2008. In June 2010 AOL sold it to Criterion Capital...

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17. 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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18. Twitter - 140 characters and the Fail Whale

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/twitter

    Twitter turned four in 2010 and became the internet's newswire. Users sent about 50 million tweets a day in February and roughly 90 million a day by September, the...

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19. iTunes Store - Ten billion songs sold, and the Beatles arrive

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/itunes-store

    The iTunes Store was the centre of legal digital music in 2010: it passed ten billion songs sold in February, iTunes 10 arrived in September with the ill-fated Ping...

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20. LinkedIn - The professional network before it became a feed

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/linkedin

    LinkedIn in 2010 was the online résumé: profiles, connection requests from people you met once, and recruiters' InMail. It reported passing 90 million members around the...

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21. MySpace - The fading giant with glitter graphics and a Top 8

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/myspace

    By 2010 MySpace had lost its crown to Facebook and was shedding users and staff under News Corp, which had bought it in 2005. In October it relaunched as a "social...

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22. LimeWire - The P2P client a court shut down in October 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/limewire

    LimeWire was the file-sharing program of a generation: a green-and-grey Gnutella client full of misnamed MP3s, fake files and viruses. On 26 October 2010 a federal court...

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23. 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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24. 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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25. The Pirate Bay - The torrent tracker that would not die

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/the-pirate-bay

    The Pirate Bay was the world's best-known BitTorrent index in 2010, a year after its founders were convicted in Sweden. Its pirate-ship logo, comment threads and "legal...

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26. eBay - Auctions giving way to Buy It Now

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ebay

    eBay was still the world's marketplace for used goods and collectibles in 2010, but its auction format was losing ground to fixed-price Buy It Now listings and to...

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27. Windows Live Messenger (MSN) - Nudges, winks and display names full of lyrics

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-live-messenger

    Still called MSN by almost everyone, Windows Live Messenger was the dominant instant messenger outside the United States in 2010, with hundreds of millions of users. Its...

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28. Skype - Free calls over the internet, video included

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/skype

    Skype was how families called abroad and how long-distance couples saw each other in 2010. It reported more than 500 million registered users, offered free...

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29. 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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30. Armor Games - Sponsor of the best Flash games

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/armor-games

    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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