2010 Search

60 reconstructed results for point and shoot in the 2010 exhibit.

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

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

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   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...

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

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   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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4. cool story bro - Sarcastic dismissal of a boring or pointless post.

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   cool story bro: Sarcastic dismissal of a boring or pointless post. Example: "cool story bro"

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5. Addicting Games - Nickelodeon's Flash arcade

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   Addicting Games, owned by Nickelodeon's parent Viacom, was one of the most-visited casual game sites in 2010, with categories like Shooting, Puzzle and Sports and a...

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6. Foursquare - Check in, become the mayor

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/foursquare

   Foursquare made 2010 the year of the check-in. Users broadcast their location to friends, collected badges, and fought to become the "mayor" of their coffee shop. The...

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7. Anonymous and Operation Payback - Guy Fawkes masks, LOIC, and the WikiLeaks payment war

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   Anonymous, the loose collective born on 4chan, spent 2010 attacking anti-piracy groups and then, in December, the companies that cut off WikiLeaks: PayPal, Visa and...

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8. Groupon - One deal a day, and a $6 billion offer refused

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   Groupon emailed one local deal a day, half-price yoga classes or restaurant vouchers, that only activated if enough people bought in. It was called the fastest-growing...

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9. Android 2.2 Froyo - Flash on a phone, tethering, and a huge speed boost

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   Android 2.2, announced at Google I/O in May 2010, made Android phones two to five times faster with a JIT compiler, added Wi-Fi hotspot tethering, Chrome-to-Phone, apps...

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10. Cut the Rope - Feed Om Nom: a million sales in ten days

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    ZeptoLab's Cut the Rope launched in October 2010 and sold a million copies in ten days, one of the fastest-selling iPhone games to that point. Its physics puzzles and...

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11. StumbleUpon - Press the button, see a random great page

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/stumbleupon

    StumbleUpon's toolbar button sent you to a random web page matched to your interests, and its thumbs-up votes could send millions of visitors to an obscure site. Newly...

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12. Facebook - The social network at 500 million users

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    In 2010 Facebook was six years old, had just overtaken Google as the most-visited site in the United States on some weekly measures, and passed 500 million users in...

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13. YouTube - Two billion views a day, 360p by default

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    YouTube celebrated its fifth birthday in May 2010 by announcing more than two billion views a day. Users uploaded 24 hours of video every minute in March and 35 hours a...

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14. Bebo - The UK and Ireland's teen network, sold for a pittance

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bebo

    Bebo had been the biggest social network among teenagers in the UK and Ireland, and AOL bought it for $850 million in 2008. In June 2010 AOL sold it to Criterion Capital...

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

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    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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16. Twitter - 140 characters and the Fail Whale

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    Twitter turned four in 2010 and became the internet's newswire. Users sent about 50 million tweets a day in February and roughly 90 million a day by September, the...

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17. iTunes Store - Ten billion songs sold, and the Beatles arrive

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    The iTunes Store was the centre of legal digital music in 2010: it passed ten billion songs sold in February, iTunes 10 arrived in September with the ill-fated Ping...

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18. LinkedIn - The professional network before it became a feed

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    LinkedIn in 2010 was the online résumé: profiles, connection requests from people you met once, and recruiters' InMail. It reported passing 90 million members around the...

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19. MySpace - The fading giant with glitter graphics and a Top 8

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/myspace

    By 2010 MySpace had lost its crown to Facebook and was shedding users and staff under News Corp, which had bought it in 2005. In October it relaunched as a "social...

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20. LimeWire - The P2P client a court shut down in October 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/limewire

    LimeWire was the file-sharing program of a generation: a green-and-grey Gnutella client full of misnamed MP3s, fake files and viruses. On 26 October 2010 a federal court...

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

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    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...

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22. VKontakte - Russia's Facebook, with a music library

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    VKontakte (VK) was the dominant social network across Russia and the former Soviet states in 2010. Its interface closely resembled early Facebook, but it let users...

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23. The Pirate Bay - The torrent tracker that would not die

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    The Pirate Bay was the world's best-known BitTorrent index in 2010, a year after its founders were convicted in Sweden. Its pirate-ship logo, comment threads and "legal...

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24. eBay - Auctions giving way to Buy It Now

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    eBay was still the world's marketplace for used goods and collectibles in 2010, but its auction format was losing ground to fixed-price Buy It Now listings and to...

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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...

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26. Skype - Free calls over the internet, video included

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    Skype was how families called abroad and how long-distance couples saw each other in 2010. It reported more than 500 million registered users, offered free...

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27. CollegeHumor - Sketch comedy before YouTube channels

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/collegehumor

    CollegeHumor produced original comedy videos, such as Jake and Amir and Hardly Working, and hosted user-submitted pictures and articles. In 2010 it was one of the few...

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28. Armor Games - Sponsor of the best Flash games

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    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...

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29. Tumblr - Reblogs, GIFs and the dark blue dashboard

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    Tumblr grew explosively in 2010. Its dashboard, a dark blue page of posts from the blogs you followed, made reblogging and animated GIFs the currency of a new creative...

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30. Reddit - The front page of the internet, before it was

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/reddit

    In 2010 Reddit was a spartan, text-heavy site owned by Condé Nast, far smaller than Digg at the start of the year. Digg's disastrous August redesign sent a wave of users...

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