2010 Search

35 reconstructed results for ie8 in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. 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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3. Internet Explorer 6 - Nine years old, still used by millions, hated by developers

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/internet-explorer-6

   IE6, released in 2001, still had a meaningful share of browser use in 2010 (around a tenth worldwide, concentrated in China and corporate offices). Google dropped...

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

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-xp

   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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5. 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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6. 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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7. jQuery 1.4 - Write less, do more: the JavaScript library on most of the web

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/jquery

   jQuery 1.4, released in January 2010, was the JavaScript library almost every site used to animate menus, load content with Ajax and paper over browser differences,...

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8. Dropbox - A magic folder that synced, 2 GB free

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/dropbox

   Dropbox gave you a folder that synced across your computers and phone, with 2 GB free and more if you referred friends. In 2010 it was the way students moved essays...

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9. Rule 34

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-rule-34

   Rule 34: "If it exists, there is porn of it": one of the Rules of the Internet, from a 2003 webcomic. Example: "Rule 34, no exceptions"

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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. 4chan - Anonymous, /b/, and the meme factory

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/4chan

    4chan's anonymous image boards, especially /b/, generated much of the internet's meme vocabulary in 2010 and gave rise to Anonymous, which attacked PayPal and Visa in...

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12. 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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13. 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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14. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 - The plugin that ran YouTube, FarmVille and every banner ad

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/flash-player-10-1

    Flash Player 10.1, released in June 2010, ran the YouTube player, Hulu, Pandora, FarmVille, every browser game and most animated adverts; Adobe said it was installed on...

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15. 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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16. Opera Mini - The browser that made feature-phone internet bearable

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/opera-mini

    Opera Mini compressed pages on Opera's servers before sending them to the phone, which made it the most-used mobile browser in the world in 2010, especially on feature...

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17. µTorrent - The tiny BitTorrent client on every second PC

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/utorrent

    µTorrent was the lightweight BitTorrent client most people used in 2010 to download Linux ISOs, and everything else. Its green-and-white window of progress bars, seeds...

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18. Trollface - Problem?

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/trollface

    Trollface, a grinning MS Paint face drawn by Carlos Ramirez in September 2008, became the universal symbol of internet trolling by 2010. It appeared at the end of rage...

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19. Megaupload and Megavideo - File lockers, 72-minute limits and pirated TV

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/megavideo

    Megaupload and its video arm Megavideo were among the busiest sites on the internet in 2010, hosting everything from legitimate file transfers to full seasons of pirated...

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20. Paul the Octopus - The psychic octopus who picked every World Cup result correctly

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/paul-the-octopus

    Paul, an octopus at a German aquarium, chose the winner of all seven of Germany's 2010 World Cup matches and the final by picking a mussel from a box, and became a...

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21. 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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22. Bandcamp - Name your price

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bandcamp

    Bandcamp gave independent artists a simple page to stream and sell their music, including "name your price" downloads in any format from MP3 to FLAC. By 2010 it was...

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23. AOL - Dial-up subscribers, AIM, and a content empire in the making

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/aol

    AOL was spun off from Time Warner in December 2009 and spent 2010 remaking itself as a content company: it bought TechCrunch in September, ran Engadget, and still...

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24. 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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25. 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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26. Know Your Meme - The internet's meme encyclopedia

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/know-your-meme

    Know Your Meme documented the origin and spread of memes with the seriousness of an encyclopedia and the deadpan of a science show. Started by the Rocketboom video blog...

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27. Stack Overflow - Programming answers, upvoted

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/stack-overflow

    Stack Overflow, launched in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, had become the default place programmers looked for answers by 2010. The reputation system,...

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28. Feature phones - What most of the world actually carried

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/feature-phones

    Smartphones were still a minority in 2010: roughly one in five phones sold worldwide that year was a smartphone, according to Gartner. Most people carried feature...

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29. Pixel Dash (playable recreation) - An original one-button runner in the style of 2010 Flash games

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/pixel-dash

    Pixel Dash is this exhibit's own, original browser game, written for the time machine to show what playing a Flash game felt like in 2010: a fake preloader, a sponsor...

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30. LOLcats - I can has cheezburger? Still going strong in 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/lolcats

    LOLcats, cat photos captioned in lolspeak with Impact font, had been mainstream since 2007 and were still the most recognisable internet joke in 2010. Ceiling Cat,...

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