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2010 Search+

Section 4

2010 Search

Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.

39 reconstructed results for iphone in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for iphone

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Gizmodo and Gawker Media - The blog that bought a lost iPhone prototype

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gizmodo

    Gizmodo, Gawker Media's gadget blog, published the biggest tech story of 2010 on 19 April: photos and a teardown of a lost iPhone 4 prototype bought from someone who...

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  4. Doodle Jump - Tilt to jump, on graph paper

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/doodle-jump

    Doodle Jump, released in 2009 by two brothers, was among the most-downloaded paid iPhone games of 2010, with its hand-drawn Doodler bouncing up endless platforms using...

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  5. 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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  6. iOS 4 - Multitasking, folders, and a new name

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ios-4

    Apple renamed iPhone OS to iOS with version 4, released on 21 June 2010. It added multitasking (in a limited form), home-screen folders, wallpapers, a unified inbox,...

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  7. Angry Birds - The 99-cent game that defined the smartphone era

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/angry-birds

    Released for iPhone in December 2009, Angry Birds became the best-selling paid app of 2010, arrived free on Android in October, and passed 50 million downloads across...

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  8. Cut the Rope - Feed Om Nom: a million sales in ten days

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cut-the-rope

    ZeptoLab's Cut the Rope launched in October 2010 and sold a million copies in ten days, one of the fastest-selling iPhone games to that point. Its physics puzzles and...

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

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fruit-ninja

    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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  10. Words with Friends - Scrabble by push notification

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/words-with-friends

    Words with Friends, from Newtoy, turned Scrabble into a slow, asynchronous game between phones, with dozens of matches running at once. It was huge on the iPhone in...

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  11. Plants vs. Zombies - Tower defence with peashooters, on every platform in 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/plants-vs-zombies

    PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies, released for PC in 2009, arrived on the iPhone in February 2010 (selling 300,000 copies in nine days), then the iPad, Xbox 360 and DS. Its...

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  12. Steve Jobs - The iPad, the iPhone 4, and the war on Flash

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/steve-jobs

    Steve Jobs had his last great year of product launches in 2010: the iPad in January, the "Thoughts on Flash" letter in April, the iPhone 4 in June, the Antennagate press...

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  13. fml - F*** my life; the sigh of the 2010 status update, popularised by the site FMyLife.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-fml

    fml: F*** my life; the sigh of the 2010 status update, popularised by the site FMyLife. Example: "dropped my new iPhone 4 on day one. fml"

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  14. iPad - A 9.7-inch tablet nobody knew they needed

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ipad-1

    Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad on 27 January 2010 and it went on sale in the US on 3 April, selling 300,000 on the first day and a million within a month. It ran iPhone...

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  15. 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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  16. Adobe Creative Suite 5 - Content-Aware Fill, and Flash CS5's blocked iPhone exporter

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/adobe-cs5

    Adobe CS5, released in April 2010, brought Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill (the demo video went viral), 64-bit Photoshop on the Mac, and Dreamweaver's CSS improvements....

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  17. omg

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-omg

    omg: Oh my god; added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011, having peaked in texts and Facebook statuses long before. Example: "OMG iPhone 4 has a front camera"

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  18. Netflix - Red envelopes, and a streaming-only plan

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/netflix

    In 2010 Netflix was still mostly a DVD-by-mail company, but streaming was taking over: Watch Instantly worked on the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, Roku and, from August, the...

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  19. 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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  20. Flickr - Five billion photos, and the iPhone as top camera

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/flickr

    Flickr passed five billion uploaded photos in September 2010 and was the serious photographer's social network: albums called sets, Creative Commons licences, groups for...

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  21. Yelp - Reviews of everything, and fights with restaurants

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/yelp

    Yelp's crowd-sourced reviews of restaurants and shops were a habit for city dwellers in 2010, and its iPhone app was among the first with an augmented-reality feature...

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  22. iPod touch (4th generation) - An iPhone 4 without the phone, and the teenager's first iOS device

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ipod-touch-4

    The September 2010 iPod touch borrowed the iPhone 4's Retina display, A4 chip and FaceTime camera, starting at $229. For millions of teenagers it was the first App Store...

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  23. Canabalt - One button, endless rooftops

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/canabalt

    Canabalt, made by Adam Saltsman in 2009 for a Flash game jam, invented the one-button endless runner: a man in a suit sprinting across rooftops as a city collapses. In...

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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. Mobile data in 2010: 3G, caps, and the first 4G - A megabit or two on a good day, and the end of unlimited

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mobile-data-2010

    Most smartphones in 2010 used 3G networks that delivered a megabit or two in practice, enough for email, Facebook and a slow YouTube video. AT&T ended unlimited data for...

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  29. FarmVille - The Facebook game your aunt sent you requests for

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/farmville

    FarmVille, launched by Zynga in June 2009, was the biggest game on Facebook in 2010 with tens of millions of daily players and more than 80 million monthly users at its...

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  30. Robot Unicorn Attack - Always, I wanna be with you: the Flash game of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/robot-unicorn-attack

    Adult Swim's Robot Unicorn Attack, released in February 2010, was the Flash game of the year: a rainbow-trailing robot unicorn dashing through a pastel dreamscape to...

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The search engines of 2010

  • Verified

    Google

    Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed

    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...

    searchgooglegoogle instant

  • Supported

    Ask.com

    The former Ask Jeeves gives up on search

    Ask.com, once Ask Jeeves with its butler mascot, still had a few percent of US searches in 2010, largely through toolbars bundled with downloads. In...

    searchask.comask jeeves

  • Supported

    Baidu

    China's search engine, after Google walked away

    Baidu was already the dominant search engine in China when Google stopped censoring google.cn in March 2010 and redirected users to Hong Kong....

    searchbaiduchina

  • Supported

    Bing

    Microsoft's one-year-old "decision engine"

    Bing had launched in June 2009 with a photographic homepage and a marketing budget that called it a "decision engine" rather than a search engine. In...

    searchbingmicrosoft

  • Supported

    Wolfram|Alpha

    A computational knowledge engine

    Launched in May 2009, Wolfram|Alpha answered questions by computing rather than searching: type a maths problem, a date, or two cities and it...

    searchwolfram alphamaths

  • Supported

    Yahoo!

    The portal: mail, news, Answers and Flickr

    Yahoo! was still one of the most-visited sites on Earth in 2010, thanks to Yahoo Mail, the news-heavy portal homepage, Yahoo Answers, Flickr and...

    portalyahooemail

Why these are not real Google results

Historical search result pages cannot be reproduced faithfully: they depended on the day, the location, the logged-in account and an index that no longer exists. Instead of pretending, this page searches the exhibit's own records and presents them in the visual language of a 2010 results page. Each result links to an entry with its sources and confidence label.

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