2010 Search

33 reconstructed results for mac in the 2010 exhibit.

1. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - The $29 upgrade with no new features, and the Mac App Store on the way

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mac-os-x-snow-leopard

   Snow Leopard, released in August 2009 for $29, was the Mac OS of 2010: brushed-metal was gone, the Dock was a 3D shelf, Exposé and Spaces managed windows, and Safari 5...

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2. MacBook Air (late 2010) - Flash storage only, and an 11-inch model for $999

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/macbook-air-2010

   On 20 October 2010 Apple reintroduced the MacBook Air in 11-inch and 13-inch sizes with flash storage instead of a hard drive, instant wake and no optical drive. At $999...

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3. 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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4. OK Go: This Too Shall Pass (Rube Goldberg machine) - One take, one warehouse, one enormous machine

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ok-go-this-too-shall-pass

   OK Go, already famous for their treadmill video, released a single-take video in March 2010 in which a warehouse-sized Rube Goldberg machine plays out over four minutes....

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5. Steam in 2010 - Steam comes to the Mac, and sales that emptied wallets

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/steam-2010

   Valve's Steam store launched on the Mac in May 2010 with Portal free for two weeks, and its holiday sales, with daily deals at 75 percent off, became a ritual. Steam had...

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6. Google Chrome (versions 4 to 8) - The fast newcomer with tabs on top and one box for everything

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-chrome

   Chrome went from about 5 percent of worldwide browser usage at the start of 2010 to roughly 15 percent by December. Version 4 added extensions in January, version 5 in...

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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. "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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11. Like a Boss - From a Lonely Island song to a caption for everything

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/like-a-boss

    "Like a Boss", from The Lonely Island's 2009 SNL Digital Short with Seth Rogen, became a 2010 catchphrase and image macro: any mundane act, captioned "like a boss". It...

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12. Safari 5 - Reader mode and extensions, in brushed aluminium

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/safari-5

    Safari 5, released on 7 June 2010 for Mac and Windows, added Reader (a clean article view), extensions, Bing as a search option and a faster Nitro JavaScript engine. On...

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13. 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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14. 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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15. CityVille - Zynga's fastest-growing game ever, December 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cityville

    CityVille launched on Facebook on 2 December 2010 and passed 20 million monthly users within two weeks, faster than any Facebook game before it. It was FarmVille with a...

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16. Hard drives and the first SSDs - A terabyte for under $100, or 80 GB of flash for twice that

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hard-drives-2010

    In 2010 a 1 TB desktop hard drive cost under $100, but solid-state drives were still exotic: an 80 to 128 GB SSD cost $200 to $300. Enthusiasts installed them as boot...

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17. 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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18. 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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19. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - Twelve years later, the sequel arrives

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/starcraft-2

    StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty was released on 27 July 2010 and sold three million copies in its first month. It relaunched competitive real-time strategy, Battle.net...

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20. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm - 12 million subscribers and Azeroth remade

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wow-cataclysm

    World of Warcraft reached 12 million subscribers in October 2010, its all-time peak, and its third expansion, Cataclysm, sold 3.3 million copies in 24 hours when it...

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21. Civilization V - Hexes, one unit per tile, and one more turn

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/civilization-v

    Civilization V, released in September 2010, moved the strategy series to hexagonal tiles and one-unit-per-tile combat, and became a Steam fixture for the next decade. It...

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22. Amnesia: The Dark Descent - The horror game that made YouTube scream

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/amnesia-dark-descent

    Frictional Games' Amnesia, released in September 2010, gave players no weapons, only a lantern and a sanity meter. Its terror made it the perfect subject for webcam...

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23. Deal With It - Sunglasses drop, argument over

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/deal-with-it

    The "Deal With It" GIF, a pair of pixel sunglasses sliding onto a face, originated on the Something Awful forums in 2010 and became the standard way to end an argument...

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24. The animated GIF returns - Reaction GIFs, GIF sets and Tumblr's looping economy

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gif-culture

    Animated GIFs, a 1990s relic, came roaring back in 2010 thanks to Tumblr's reblog culture: reaction GIFs from TV shows, GIF sets of scenes, and glitter graphics...

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25. 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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26. Haters Gonna Hate - A strutting cartoon and a shrug at criticism

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/haters-gonna-hate

    "Haters gonna hate", paired with an image of someone strutting obliviously (often a cartoon character or a walking pigeon), spread across Tumblr and Reddit in 2010 as...

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27. FAIL and WIN - Epic fail, FAIL Blog, and the Fail Whale

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fail

    "FAIL", stamped over a photo of a mishap, was 2010's favourite one-word verdict, with "epic fail" for the worst cases and "WIN" for their opposite. FAIL Blog published a...

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28. 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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29. I see what you did there - Acknowledging a pun or a sly joke.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-i-see-what-you-did-there

    I see what you did there: Acknowledging a pun or a sly joke. Example: "'Bed Intruder Song' on the Billboard charts... I see what you did there"

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30. o rly? - Oh, really? Sarcastic disbelief, with an owl.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-o-rly

    o rly?: Oh, really? Sarcastic disbelief, with an owl. Example: "o rly? ya rly."

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