2010 Internet - Time Machine Browser - theinternetfrom2010.com
2010 Search+

Section 4

2010 Search

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

  1. Lady Gaga - The most-followed person on Twitter, the meat dress, Bad Romance

    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

  2. Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook's 26-year-old CEO and Time's Person of the Year

    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

  3. 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...

    PersonVerifiedReconstructed result

  4. Julian Assange - WikiLeaks' founder, the year's most controversial figure online

    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

  5. u mad? - A taunt implying the other person is angry, often paired with Trollface.

    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

  6. Firefox 3.6 - The alternative browser with a thousand extensions

    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

  7. Craigslist - Plain blue links that killed newspaper classifieds

    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

  8. Antoine Dodson - From a local news interview to the most-watched video of 2010

    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

  9. Kevin Rose - Digg's founder steps down after the v4 revolt

    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

  10. Blogger - Blogspot blogs with orange Bs

    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

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

    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

  12. Markus "Notch" Persson - The one-man studio behind Minecraft

    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

  13. Ethan Marcotte - The designer who named responsive web design

    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

  14. Google - Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed

    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

  15. Wikipedia - Three and a half million articles and a new default skin

    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

  16. Old Spice: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like - "I'm on a horse."

    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

  17. Call of Duty: Black Ops - $360 million in 24 hours, the biggest launch in entertainment history

    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

  18. 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...

    GameVerifiedReconstructed result

  19. The blogosphere - Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, RSS and the Technorati top 100

    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

  20. LiveJournal - Communities, moods and friends-only posts

    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

  21. Omegle - Talk to strangers

    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

  22. Qzone - China's biggest social network, built on QQ

    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

  23. Pandora - Type a band, get a radio station

    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

  24. Last.fm - Scrobble everything you play

    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

  25. Windows Live Messenger (MSN) - Nudges, winks and display names full of lyrics

    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

  26. iGoogle - Your personalised homepage of gadgets

    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

  27. Lady Gaga: Bad Romance - The video that ruled YouTube in early 2010

    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

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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