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.
25 reconstructed results for pac-man in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for pac-man
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google
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 China, added a...
WebsiteVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nodejs-npm
Node.js, presented by Ryan Dahl in 2009, reached version 0.2 in 2010 and npm, its package manager, was first published in January 2010. Backbone.js, CoffeeScript and the...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
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...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/epic-beard-man
A February 2010 cellphone video of a fight on an Oakland bus involving a 67-year-old bearded man became one of the year's first viral sensations, generating remixes, a...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/old-spice-man-your-man-could-smell-like
Wieden+Kennedy's Old Spice advert, starring Isaiah Mustafa in a single unbroken shot, was posted to YouTube in February 2010 and became the year's most-shared...
MediaVerifiedReconstructed result
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...
GameVerifiedReconstructed result
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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/minecraft
In 2010 Minecraft was an alpha you bought for about 10 euros from Markus "Notch" Persson's website and played in a Java window. Survival mode had arrived in 2009, Alpha...
GameSupportedReconstructed result
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/android-gingerbread
Android 2.3 Gingerbread arrived on the Nexus S in December 2010 with a darker, cleaner interface, a better keyboard, NFC support and copy-and-paste improvements. Because...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed 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/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...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hotmail
Hotmail, by then branded Windows Live Hotmail, had hundreds of millions of accounts in 2010, many of them the first email address people ever created. A mid-2010 update...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/markus-persson
Markus Persson, known as Notch, developed Minecraft largely alone in 2010, posting updates on his blog and Twitter and selling the alpha from his website. By the end of...
PersonSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-talk
Google Talk, and the Gmail Chat box built into the Gmail sidebar, let people message and video chat without installing anything. In 2010 it was quietly replacing AIM for...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-reader
Google Reader was the RSS reader of choice for anyone who followed many blogs, with keyboard shortcuts, folders, and a Share button that made it a small social network...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/yelp
Yelp's crowd-sourced reviews of restaurants and shops were a habit for city dwellers in 2010, and its iPhone app was among the first with an augmented-reality feature...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/armor-games
Armor Games sponsored and hosted many of the highest-quality Flash games of the era, including tower-defence hits and puzzle games, with a brown-and-orange site and a...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/canabalt
Canabalt, made by Adam Saltsman in 2009 for a Flash game jam, invented the one-button endless runner: a man in a suit sprinting across rooftops as a city collapses. In...
GameSupportedReconstructed 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...
searchgooglegoogle instant
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.