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Section 4

2010 Search

Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.

38 reconstructed results for party game in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for party game

  1. Just Dance 2 - The Wii party game that outsold the critics' favourites

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/just-dance-2

    Just Dance 2, released in October 2010, was one of the best-selling games of the year despite lukewarm reviews, proving the Wii's audience wanted to dance in the living...

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  2. totes / obvs

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-totes

    totes / obvs: Totally and obviously, shortened; the texting abbreviations that were about to become spoken slang. Example: "totes coming to the party, obvs"

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

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/tik-tok-kesha

    "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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  4. Photobucket - Where MySpace and forum images lived

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/photobucket

    Photobucket hosted the images that people hot-linked into MySpace profiles, forum signatures and eBay listings. In 2010 it was one of the most-visited image hosts in the...

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  5. Windows Phone 7 launch phones - Samsung Focus, HTC HD7 and the Metro tiles

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-phone-7-devices

    Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 in Europe on 21 October 2010 and in the US on 8 November, with phones such as the Samsung Focus, HTC HD7 and LG Quantum. The Metro...

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  6. The point-and-shoot camera - 12 megapixels, a 3-inch screen, and an SD card full of party photos

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/point-and-shoot-2010

    Most 2010 photos were still taken with compact digital cameras like the Canon PowerShot and Sony Cyber-shot lines: around 12 megapixels, a 3 or 4x zoom, 720p video, and...

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  7. Android Market - 100,000 apps, and the Angry Birds free-for-all

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-market-2010

    Android Market, the store that became Google Play in 2012, passed 100,000 apps in October 2010. Its green robot storefront was messier than Apple's and full of free,...

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  8. The Game

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-the-game

    The Game: A mind game everyone is playing; thinking about it means you just lost. Posting "I lost the game" made everyone else lose. Example: "I just lost the game"

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  9. FarmVille - The Facebook game your aunt sent you requests for

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/farmville

    FarmVille, launched by Zynga in June 2009, was the biggest game on Facebook in 2010 with tens of millions of daily players and more than 80 million monthly users at its...

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  10. Angry Birds - The 99-cent game that defined the smartphone era

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/angry-birds

    Released for iPhone in December 2009, Angry Birds became the best-selling paid app of 2010, arrived free on Android in October, and passed 50 million downloads across...

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  11. Robot Unicorn Attack - Always, I wanna be with you: the Flash game of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/robot-unicorn-attack

    Adult Swim's Robot Unicorn Attack, released in February 2010, was the Flash game of the year: a rainbow-trailing robot unicorn dashing through a pastel dreamscape to...

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  12. hi5 - Big in Latin America and Portugal

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hi5

    hi5 was one of the world's largest social networks in the mid-2000s, especially in Latin America, Portugal, Romania and Thailand. In 2010 it was pivoting toward social...

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  13. Newgrounds - Everything, by everyone: the Flash portal

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/newgrounds

    Newgrounds was the original home of Flash games and animations, where amateur creators uploaded movies and games for the community to rate. In 2010 its Flash Portal...

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  14. 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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  15. The Impossible Quiz - The trick-question Flash game every classroom knew

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/the-impossible-quiz

    Splapp-me-do's The Impossible Quiz, from 2007, was still one of the most-played Flash games on school computers in 2010: 110 trick questions, three lives, and skips. It...

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  16. 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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  17. Words with Friends - Scrabble by push notification

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/words-with-friends

    Words with Friends, from Newtoy, turned Scrabble into a slow, asynchronous game between phones, with dozens of matches running at once. It was huge on the iPhone in...

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  18. Super Meat Boy - From Newgrounds Flash game to indie hit

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/super-meat-boy

    Super Meat Boy, released in October 2010 on Xbox Live Arcade and in November on Steam, grew out of a 2008 Newgrounds Flash game. Its brutal platforming and a million...

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  19. Canabalt - One button, endless rooftops

    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...

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  20. Happy Wheels - Ragdoll physics and a level editor, born in 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/happy-wheels

    Jim Bonacci's Happy Wheels, released in June 2010, was a gory ragdoll physics game with a level editor that let players share courses. It spread through Flash portals in...

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  21. Minecraft (Alpha and Beta) - A Java game sold from a one-man website, before it ruled the world

    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...

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  22. 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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  23. Mafia Wars - Text-based crime, energy bars and a lawsuit

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mafia-wars

    Mafia Wars was Zynga's text-heavy crime game where you did jobs, recruited friends into your mafia and waited for energy to refill. It had millions of daily players on...

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  24. Miniclip - Free games, and the school-computer favourite

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/miniclip

    Miniclip was where school computer labs went to play 8 Ball Pool, Club Penguin's ancestors and hundreds of other Flash games. In 2010 it claimed tens of millions of...

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  25. Fruit Ninja - Swipe to slice, avoid the bombs

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fruit-ninja

    Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja, released in April 2010, made the touchscreen itself the game: swipe to slice flying fruit, avoid bombs. It was one of the top-selling iPhone...

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  26. Halo: Reach - $200 million on day one

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/halo-reach

    Bungie's last Halo game launched on 14 September 2010 and made $200 million in its first 24 hours, the biggest entertainment launch of the year until Black Ops. Its...

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  27. 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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  28. Bejeweled Blitz - One-minute matches and a weekly friends leaderboard

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bejeweled-blitz

    PopCap's Bejeweled Blitz turned the match-three classic into 60-second rounds with a leaderboard of your Facebook friends that reset every week. In 2010 it was one of...

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  29. Doodle Jump - Tilt to jump, on graph paper

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/doodle-jump

    Doodle Jump, released in 2009 by two brothers, was among the most-downloaded paid iPhone games of 2010, with its hand-drawn Doodler bouncing up endless platforms using...

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  30. Bloons Tower Defense 4 - Monkeys, darts and the tower-defence craze

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bloons-td-4

    Ninja Kiwi's Bloons TD 4, released in late 2009, was one of the most-played Flash games of 2010 on Kongregate, Newgrounds and Ninja Kiwi's own site. Tower defence was...

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The search engines of 2010

  • Verified

    Google

    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

  • Supported

    Ask.com

    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...

    searchask.comask jeeves

  • Supported

    Baidu

    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....

    searchbaiduchina

  • Supported

    Bing

    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...

    searchbingmicrosoft

  • Supported

    Wolfram|Alpha

    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...

    searchwolfram alphamaths

  • Supported

    Yahoo!

    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...

    portalyahooemail

Why these are not real Google results

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.

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