2010 Search

40 reconstructed results for net neutrality in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. Orkut - Google's social network that Brazil and India loved

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/orkut

   Orkut, Google's 2004 social network, was largely ignored in the United States but was the biggest social network in Brazil and hugely popular in India through 2010. Its...

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3. Roku (2010 models) - The little box that made Netflix streaming a habit

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/roku-2010

   Roku's 2010 line, the HD, XD and XDS at $59.99 to $99.99, were the cheapest way to get Netflix Watch Instantly, Hulu Plus, Pandora and Amazon on a TV. With the Wii, Xbox...

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4. 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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5. 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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6. Bebo - The UK and Ireland's teen network, sold for a pittance

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bebo

   Bebo had been the biggest social network among teenagers in the UK and Ireland, and AOL bought it for $850 million in 2008. In June 2010 AOL sold it to Criterion Capital...

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

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/qzone

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

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vkontakte

   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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9. Apple TV (2nd generation) - A $99 black puck for renting shows and streaming Netflix

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/apple-tv-2010

   The second-generation Apple TV, announced on 1 September 2010, shrank to a tiny black box with no storage, rented TV episodes for 99 cents and films from $3.99, streamed...

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10. MiFi mobile hotspots - 3G Wi-Fi in your pocket, with a 5 GB cap

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mifi-hotspots

    The Novatel MiFi and its rivals turned a 3G connection into a small Wi-Fi network for a laptop and an iPad, typically for $60 a month with a 5 GB cap. In 2010 they were...

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11. Home broadband in 2010 - DSL or cable, a few megabits, and a router with WEP

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/home-broadband-2010

    About two-thirds of American adults had home broadband in 2010, according to Pew, mostly DSL or cable at speeds of a few megabits per second; the FCC's National...

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12. 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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13. 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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14. Hulu - Free TV on the web, with ads, US only

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hulu

    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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15. 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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16. Stack Overflow - Programming answers, upvoted

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/stack-overflow

    Stack Overflow, launched in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, had become the default place programmers looked for answers by 2010. The reputation system,...

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17. HTC Evo 4G - The first 4G phone in America, on Sprint's WiMAX

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/htc-evo-4g

    Released on 4 June 2010, the HTC Evo 4G was the first US phone sold as 4G, using Sprint's WiMAX network, which existed in only a few dozen cities. Its 4.3-inch screen...

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18. Netbooks - Tiny, cheap Atom laptops at their peak, then killed by the iPad

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/netbooks

    Netbooks, the 10-inch, $300 laptops with Intel Atom chips that had exploded in 2008 and 2009, peaked in 2010. They ran Windows 7 Starter or XP slowly, had cramped...

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

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/playstation-3-slim

    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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20. 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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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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24. 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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25. 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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26. The Social Network - "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies"

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/the-social-network

    David Fincher's film about Facebook's founding, written by Aaron Sorkin and starring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, opened on 1 October 2010 to rave reviews and won...

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27. Windows XP - Nine years old and still the most-used OS on Earth

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-xp

    Windows XP, released in 2001, was still the most common desktop operating system in 2010, running about half of the world's desktop web traffic. Its green Start button...

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28. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) - Linux for people, with a new purple theme

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ubuntu-10-04

    Ubuntu 10.04, released in April 2010, was the Linux distribution most likely to be found on a netbook or a curious student's dual-boot laptop. It introduced a...

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29. 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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30. 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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