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.
32 reconstructed results for person in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for person
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/lady-gaga
Lady Gaga was the biggest pop star of 2010: Bad Romance and Telephone ruled YouTube, she became the first person to reach 10 million Facebook fans and overtook Britney...
PersonSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mark-zuckerberg
In 2010 Mark Zuckerberg was 26, running a company with 500 million users, the subject of an unflattering Oscar-winning film, and Time's Person of the Year. His hoodie,...
PersonVerifiedReconstructed result
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...
PersonVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/julian-assange
Julian Assange went from obscurity to global notoriety in 2010 as WikiLeaks published the Collateral Murder video, the war logs and the diplomatic cables. By December he...
PersonVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-u-mad
u mad?: A taunt implying the other person is angry, often paired with Trollface. Example: "u mad bro?"
SlangSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/firefox-3-6
Firefox 3.6, released on 21 January 2010, was the browser of choice for people who cared, with about 30 percent of worldwide usage. It added Personas skins, plugin-crash...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/craigslist
Craigslist looked exactly like it had in the 1990s: a list of blue links on a white page, city by city, with apartments, jobs, used furniture and missed connections. In...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/antoine-dodson
Antoine Dodson became famous in July 2010 for his interview about an intruder in his sister's bedroom, which the Gregory Brothers turned into Bed Intruder Song. He...
PersonVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/kevin-rose
Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg and a Web 2.0 celebrity, oversaw the August 2010 Digg v4 redesign that drove users to Reddit, and stepped down as CEO in September. He...
PersonSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogger
Blogger, Google-owned since 2003, hosted millions of free blogspot.com blogs in 2010, from personal diaries to recipe blogs to the MP3 blogs of the music-download era. A...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/steve-jobs
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...
PersonVerifiedReconstructed 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/ethan-marcotte
Ethan Marcotte, a web designer and A List Apart contributor, coined "responsive web design" in May 2010 and wrote the 2011 book that made it standard practice. Few...
PersonVerifiedReconstructed result
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/wikipedia
Wikipedia was nine years old in 2010 and by far the largest reference work ever assembled, with the English edition approaching 3.5 million articles. In May the site...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed 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/call-of-duty-black-ops
Call of Duty: Black Ops, released on 9 November 2010, sold about 5.6 million copies in its first 24 hours in the US and UK, worth $360 million, then the biggest...
GameVerifiedReconstructed result
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...
GameVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogosphere-2010
In 2010 blogs were still the intellectual centre of the web: personal blogs on Blogger and WordPress, mommy blogs, MP3 blogs, political blogs, and professional blog...
CultureEditorialReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/livejournal
LiveJournal was the blogging community that fandoms, writers and teenagers had used since 1999. Owned by Russian company SUP since 2007, it was in slow decline in the...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/omegle
Omegle launched in 2009 as an anonymous text chat with strangers and added video chat in March 2010 as Chatroulette's popularity surged. Its tagline, "Talk to...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/pandora
Pandora's Music Genome Project turned any song or artist into a personalised radio station with thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons. Free listening was capped at 40 hours...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/last-fm
Last.fm recorded ("scrobbled") every track you played in iTunes, Winamp or your iPod and turned it into charts, recommendations and neighbours with similar taste. In...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-live-messenger
Still called MSN by almost everyone, Windows Live Messenger was the dominant instant messenger outside the United States in 2010, with hundreds of millions of users. Its...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/igoogle
iGoogle let you build a homepage of widgets: Gmail, weather, news, a to-do list and thousands of gadgets, with themes that changed with the time of day. In 2010 it was...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bad-romance
Bad Romance, released in late 2009, dominated 2010: it was the most-viewed video on YouTube until Baby overtook it in July, won Grammys in 2011, and its "Rah rah,...
MediaVerifiedReconstructed 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.