2010 Search

42 reconstructed results for m.site in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. 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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3. Texts From Last Night - Anonymous drunk texts, sorted by area code

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/texts-from-last-night

   Texts From Last Night posted anonymous text messages submitted by readers, tagged only with an area code, and became a 2009-2010 phenomenon with a book deal and a TV...

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4. 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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5. Firesheep - The Firefox extension that hijacked Facebook sessions on café Wi-Fi

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/firesheep

   Released on 24 October 2010, Firesheep let anyone on the same open Wi-Fi network click into other people's Facebook, Twitter and Amazon sessions, because those sites...

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6. 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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7. 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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8. eBaum's World - Flash videos, viral clips and content wars

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ebaums-world

   eBaum's World was a 2000s viral-media site that collected funny videos, Flash animations and images, often without credit, which made it notorious among creators. By...

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9. Demotivational posters - A black border, a photo, a word in serif, and a cruel caption

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/demotivational-posters

   Demotivational posters parodied corporate motivational posters: a photo in a black frame, a one-word title and a deflating caption. Despair.com started the joke in 1998,...

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

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wikipedia

    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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14. 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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15. 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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16. Browser plugins: Flash, Java, Silverlight, QuickTime - The web ran on plugins, and every one of them wanted an update

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/browser-plugins

    In 2010 the browser was a host for plugins: Flash for video and games, Java for RuneScape and bank sites, Silverlight for Netflix, QuickTime and RealPlayer for media,...

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17. 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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18. Responsive web design - Ethan Marcotte names the idea, May 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/responsive-web-design

    On 25 May 2010, Ethan Marcotte published "Responsive Web Design" in A List Apart, combining fluid grids, flexible images and CSS media queries into one approach. Before...

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

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-market-2010

    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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20. The mobile web in 2010 - m.facebook.com, WAP pages, and a web that did not fit

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

    In 2010 the mobile web meant separate m.sites with stripped-down layouts (m.facebook.com, m.youtube.com), WAP pages on feature phones, and pinch-zooming full desktop...

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21. Bieber Fever and the Beliebers - The first pop star made by YouTube and Twitter

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bieber-fever

    Justin Bieber, discovered on YouTube in 2008, became the biggest teen star in the world in 2010. Beliebers organised on Twitter, where a Twitter engineer said Bieber...

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22. Friendster - The original social network, thriving in Southeast Asia

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/friendster

    Friendster predated MySpace and Facebook, and although it had faded in the West by 2010, it was still one of the most popular sites in the Philippines, Malaysia and...

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23. 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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24. 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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25. Hype Machine - The MP3 blog aggregator

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hype-machine

    Hype Machine tracked hundreds of MP3 blogs and let you stream whatever they had just posted, with a Popular chart that could break a band. In 2010 it was the front page...

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26. Yahoo! - The portal: mail, news, Answers and Flickr

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/yahoo

    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 Yahoo Finance. Under CEO...

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27. Ask.com - The former Ask Jeeves gives up on search

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ask-com

    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 November 2010 it...

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28. 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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29. StumbleUpon - Press the button, see a random great page

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/stumbleupon

    StumbleUpon's toolbar button sent you to a random web page matched to your interests, and its thumbs-up votes could send millions of visitors to an obscure site. Newly...

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30. 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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