2010 Search

33 reconstructed results for know your meme in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. idk - I don't know; also "idc" (I don't care) and "idek" (I don't even know).

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-idk

   idk: I don't know; also "idc" (I don't care) and "idek" (I don't even know). Example: "idk maybe see inception again"

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3. meme

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-meme

   meme: An idea, image or joke that spreads and mutates online; in 2010 the word was crossing from Know Your Meme into ordinary speech. Example: "Sad Keanu is my favourite...

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4. I Can Has Cheezburger and the Cheezburger Network - LOLcats as a media company

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cheezburger-network

   I Can Has Cheezburger turned LOLcats into a business, and by 2010 the Cheezburger Network ran dozens of sites, including FAIL Blog and Memebase, publishing...

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5. Wolfram|Alpha - A computational knowledge engine

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wolfram-alpha

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

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6. Quora - Questions answered by people who were there

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/quora

   Quora opened to the public in June 2010, founded by two former Facebook engineers. Its promise was answers from people with first-hand knowledge, and in 2010 Silicon...

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7. 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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8. Facebook official - A relationship confirmed by changing your relationship status; "FBO".

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-facebook-official

   Facebook official: A relationship confirmed by changing your relationship status; "FBO". Example: "it's not real until it's Facebook official"

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

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/chatroulette-piano

    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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11. 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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12. 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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13. Kevin Rose - Digg's founder steps down after the v4 revolt

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/kevin-rose

    Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg and a Web 2.0 celebrity, oversaw the August 2010 Digg v4 redesign that drove users to Reddit, and stepped down as CEO in September. He...

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14. 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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15. The Game

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-the-game

    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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16. 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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17. Inception - The blockbuster of 2010, and the BWONG that launched a thousand trailers

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/inception

    Christopher Nolan's Inception, released in July 2010, was the year's most discussed film online: forums argued about the spinning top, the trailer's booming brass note...

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18. Inception BWONG - The trailer noise that took over every trailer

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/inception-bwong

    The booming brass note from the Inception trailers, nicknamed BWONG or BRAAAM, became a meme in the summer of 2010: added to cat videos, mocked in parodies and copied by...

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19. 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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20. wall / wall post

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-wall

    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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21. reblog

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-reblog

    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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22. check in / mayor

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-check-in

    check in / mayor: To announce your location on Foursquare (or, from August, Facebook Places); the most frequent visitor became a venue's mayor. Example: "just ousted...

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

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-sig

    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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24. Advice Animals - Philosoraptor, Socially Awkward Penguin, Courage Wolf and friends

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/advice-animals

    Advice Animals were image macros with an animal's head on a colour-wheel background and a two-line joke in Impact font. Advice Dog started it in 2006; by 2010...

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25. 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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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. Me Gusta - The face for enjoying something you should not

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/me-gusta

    Me Gusta, a bulging-eyed face drawn by Matt Oswald in March 2010, was the rage comic reaction for guilty pleasure. It spread through Reddit and Tumblr through the year...

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28. Y U NO Guy - "Y U NO" + any complaint, in broken English

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/y-u-no

    Y U NO Guy, a rage face taken from a manga panel, became a 2010 image macro for exasperated questions: "Facebook, Y U NO let me dislike?" It was one of the first rage...

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29. Sad Keanu - A paparazzi photo of Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich, Photoshopped everywhere

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/sad-keanu

    A May 2010 paparazzi photo of Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich alone on a New York bench became Sad Keanu in June, when Reddit and 4chan users cut him out and pasted him...

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

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/x-all-the-y

    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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