2010 Search

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1. Something Awful - The forums that cost ten bucks

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   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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2. Let's Play videos - From Something Awful screenshots to YouTube commentary

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   Let's Plays, playing a game while narrating it, began as screenshot threads on Something Awful and became a YouTube video genre by 2010, with Minecraft and horror games...

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3. PlayStation Move - Sony's glowing-ball motion controller

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   PlayStation Move, released in September 2010, paired a glowing wand with the PlayStation Eye camera for precise motion control on the PS3. It was Sony's answer to the...

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4. Pet Society - Playfish's cute pets, bought by EA

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   Pet Society, from Playfish, let you dress up a pet, decorate its house and visit friends' pets, and was one of the largest Facebook games of 2010. Electronic Arts had...

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5. YouTube - Two billion views a day, 360p by default

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

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   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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7. Limbo - Black-and-white, silent, and the summer's indie darling

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   Playdead's Limbo launched on Xbox Live Arcade in July 2010 as part of Microsoft's Summer of Arcade. Its monochrome silhouettes, giant spider and puzzle-platforming won...

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8. SoundCloud - Waveforms and timed comments

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   SoundCloud, founded in Berlin in 2007, was becoming the place for producers and DJs to share tracks in 2010. Its orange waveform player, with comments pinned to moments...

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9. PlayStation 3 Slim - Blu-ray, free online play, and the year the Other OS vanished

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   The PS3 Slim, released in 2009 at $299, was Sony's console through 2010, with a Blu-ray drive, free PlayStation Network play and exclusives like God of War III, Heavy...

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10. iPod nano (6th generation) - A tiny touchscreen square that people wore as a watch

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    The 2010 iPod nano dropped the click wheel and video camera for a 1.5-inch multitouch square with a clip, the size of a postage stamp. Watch-strap accessories turned it...

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11. God of War III - Kratos versus Olympus, in PS3 spectacle

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    God of War III, released in March 2010, was the PlayStation 3's graphical showpiece of the year, with Kratos climbing titans the size of mountains. It sold more than a...

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

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    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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14. Facebook - The social network at 500 million users

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

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    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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16. Kinect for Xbox 360 - You are the controller

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    Kinect launched on 4 November 2010 in North America as a $149 camera bar that tracked your whole body and voice for the Xbox 360. Microsoft sold eight million units in...

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17. Android 2.2 Froyo - Flash on a phone, tethering, and a huge speed boost

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

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

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    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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20. Minecraft (Alpha and Beta) - A Java game sold from a one-man website, before it ruled the world

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    In 2010 Minecraft was an alpha you bought for about 10 euros from Markus "Notch" Persson's website and played in a Java window. Survival mode had arrived in 2009, Alpha...

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21. Red Dead Redemption - Rockstar's western, the game of the year for many

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    Red Dead Redemption, released on 18 May 2010, put Rockstar's open-world design in the dying American West. It won many game-of-the-year awards, its Undead Nightmare...

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22. Call of Duty: Black Ops - $360 million in 24 hours, the biggest launch in entertainment history

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    Call of Duty: Black Ops, released on 9 November 2010, sold about 5.6 million copies in its first 24 hours in the US and UK, worth $360 million, then the biggest...

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23. HTML5 - Native video, canvas and the end of plugins, still a draft

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    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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24. Android Market - 100,000 apps, and the Angry Birds free-for-all

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    Android Market, the store that became Google Play in 2012, passed 100,000 apps in October 2010. Its green robot storefront was messier than Apple's and full of free,...

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25. Ringtones and ringback tones - The $2.99 ringtone business in its last big years

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    Ringtones were still a multi-billion-dollar business in 2010, sold by carriers and services like Myxer and Jamster, and Myxer was one of Google's fastest-rising searches...

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26. Qzone - China's biggest social network, built on QQ

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    Tencent's Qzone, attached to the QQ messenger, was by most measures the largest social network in China in 2010, with hundreds of millions of active users decorating...

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27. VKontakte - Russia's Facebook, with a music library

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    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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28. Vimeo - Where filmmakers uploaded in HD

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    Vimeo was the arty alternative to YouTube in 2010: cleaner pages, HD playback, no ads in the player, and a community of designers, animators and indie filmmakers. Its...

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29. Hulu - Free TV on the web, with ads, US only

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    Hulu streamed current episodes of network TV shows for free with commercials, a revelation in 2010 when most television was still cable or DVD. Hulu Plus, a...

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30. Mafia Wars - Text-based crime, energy bars and a lawsuit

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    Mafia Wars was Zynga's text-heavy crime game where you did jobs, recruited friends into your mafia and waited for energy to refill. It had millions of daily players on...

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