Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed
Google in 2010 was a white page with a colourful logo, one box and ten blue links. The year began with Google refusing to keep censoring results in...
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Section 4
Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.
33 reconstructed results for os x in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for os x
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...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
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...
ProductVerifiedReconstructed result
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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/club-penguin
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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
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...
GameSupportedReconstructed result
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....
MediaVerifiedReconstructed result
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...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
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...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
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...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
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...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
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...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
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...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
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,...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
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....
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
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...
GameSupportedReconstructed result
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...
ProductSupportedReconstructed result
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...
GameSupportedReconstructed result
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...
GameEditorialReconstructed result
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...
GameVerifiedReconstructed result
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...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
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...
CultureEditorialReconstructed result
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"
SlangEditorialReconstructed result
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...
GameVerifiedReconstructed result
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...
GameVerifiedReconstructed result
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...
GameVerifiedReconstructed result
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,...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
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...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
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...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-o-rly
o rly?: Oh, really? Sarcastic disbelief, with an owl. Example: "o rly? ya rly."
SlangSupportedReconstructed result
Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed
Google in 2010 was a white page with a colourful logo, one box and ten blue links. The year began with Google refusing to keep censoring results in...
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The former Ask Jeeves gives up on search
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...
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China's search engine, after Google walked away
Baidu was already the dominant search engine in China when Google stopped censoring google.cn in March 2010 and redirected users to Hong Kong....
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Microsoft's one-year-old "decision engine"
Bing had launched in June 2009 with a photographic homepage and a marketing budget that called it a "decision engine" rather than a search engine. In...
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A computational knowledge engine
Launched in May 2009, Wolfram|Alpha answered questions by computing rather than searching: type a maths problem, a date, or two cities and it...
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The portal: mail, news, Answers and Flickr
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...
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Historical search result pages cannot be reproduced faithfully: they depended on the day, the location, the logged-in account and an index that no longer exists. Instead of pretending, this page searches the exhibit's own records and presents them in the visual language of a 2010 results page. Each result links to an entry with its sources and confidence label.