2010 Search

45 reconstructed results for open world in the 2010 exhibit.

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

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/red-dead-redemption

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

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   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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4. Vuvuzela - The droning horn of the 2010 World Cup, and the internet's loudest joke

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   The vuvuzela, the plastic horn that droned through every 2010 World Cup broadcast from South Africa, became a meme within days: browser extensions added a vuvuzela to...

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5. Symbian - The world's most-used smartphone OS, and nobody in Silicon Valley cared

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/symbian

   Symbian, the operating system on Nokia's smartphones, still had the largest share of smartphone sales worldwide in 2010, about 37.6 percent according to Gartner, ahead...

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6. Steve Jobs - The iPad, the iPhone 4, and the war on Flash

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   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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7. Paul the Octopus - The psychic octopus who picked every World Cup result correctly

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   Paul, an octopus at a German aquarium, chose the winner of all seven of Germany's 2010 World Cup matches and the final by picking a mussel from a box, and became a...

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8. Club Penguin - Disney's virtual world for kids

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   Club Penguin was the safe, moderated virtual world where children waddled around as penguins, played mini-games and decorated igloos. Disney had bought it in 2007, and...

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9. Kinect for Xbox 360 - You are the controller

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/kinect

   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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10. Kesha: Tik Tok - Billboard's number-one song of 2010

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    "Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy" opened the biggest song of 2010. Tik Tok topped the Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks and finished as Billboard's year-end...

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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. Google Font API (Google Fonts) - Free web fonts for everyone, launched at Google I/O

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    Google launched its Font API and directory in May 2010 with 18 open-source typefaces, including Lobster, Droid Sans, Yanone Kaffeesatz and Inconsolata. Alongside Typekit...

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15. AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) - Buddy lists and away messages, fading fast

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/aim

    AIM had defined instant messaging in America for a decade, with its running-man icon, buddy lists, door-opening sounds and passive-aggressive away messages. By 2010 it...

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16. IMDb - The movie database, 20 years old

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/imdb

    IMDb celebrated its 20th anniversary in October 2010. Owned by Amazon, it was the site everyone opened to settle who was in what, with its yellow-and-black branding,...

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17. Bitcoin in 2010 - Ten thousand coins for two pizzas

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bitcoin-2010

    Bitcoin was a year old and worth almost nothing in 2010. On 22 May, Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, the first recorded purchase with the currency. The Mt....

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18. 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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19. The App Store in 2010 - "There's an app for that": 300,000 apps and counting

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/app-store-2010

    Apple's App Store passed 300,000 apps in late 2010 and had served billions of downloads since opening in 2008; the American Dialect Society named "app" its word of the...

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20. 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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21. Dropbox - A magic folder that synced, 2 GB free

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/dropbox

    Dropbox gave you a folder that synced across your computers and phone, with 2 GB free and more if you referred friends. In 2010 it was the way students moved essays...

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22. GitHub - Social coding

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/github

    GitHub, two years old in 2010, was turning Git hosting into a social network for programmers with forks, pull requests and profile pages. Rails, jQuery and Node.js...

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23. Mass Effect 2 - The suicide mission

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    BioWare's Mass Effect 2, released on 26 January 2010, opened the year with one of its most acclaimed games: a squad-recruiting space opera whose final mission could kill...

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24. The Fail Whale - Twitter's over-capacity page, seen constantly during the World Cup

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fail-whale

    Yiying Lu's illustration of a whale lifted by birds appeared whenever Twitter was over capacity, which in 2010 was often: during the World Cup, the Lost finale and the...

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25. 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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26. RuneScape - The browser MMO played in the school library

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/runescape

    RuneScape ran in a browser with Java, needed no download, and had millions of players in 2010. Its low-polygon world, skill grinding, Wilderness PvP and player-run...

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27. BlackBerry Bold 9700 - The keyboard phone of the business world and the school corridor

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blackberry-bold-9700

    The Bold 9700 was the definitive 2010 BlackBerry: a compact QWERTY keyboard, an optical trackpad, the red blinking notification light, and BlackBerry Messenger....

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28. Justin Bieber - Sixteen, discovered on YouTube, and the most-searched person of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/justin-bieber

    Justin Bieber released My World 2.0 in March 2010, became the youngest solo male act to top the Billboard 200 in 47 years, and had the most-viewed video on YouTube by...

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29. trending - Appearing in Twitter's trending topics list; by extension, popular right now.

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    trending: Appearing in Twitter's trending topics list; by extension, popular right now. Example: "#Inception is trending worldwide"

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30. 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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