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.
31 reconstructed results for pop in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for pop
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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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/plants-vs-zombies
PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies, released for PC in 2009, arrived on the iPhone in February 2010 (selling 300,000 copies in nine days), then the iPad, Xbox 360 and DS. Its...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-fml
fml: F*** my life; the sigh of the 2010 status update, popularised by the site FMyLife. Example: "dropped my new iPhone 4 on day one. fml"
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hype-machine
Hype Machine tracked hundreds of MP3 blogs and let you stream whatever they had just posted, with a Popular chart that could break a band. In 2010 it was the front page...
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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...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-trending
trending: Appearing in Twitter's trending topics list; by extension, popular right now. Example: "#Inception is trending worldwide"
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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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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...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/delicious
Delicious (originally del.icio.us) let people save bookmarks with tags and see what everyone else was saving. It had defined social bookmarking since 2003, but in...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/facepalm
The facepalm, especially the still of Captain Picard with his hand over his face, was the standard forum and Reddit reaction to stupidity in 2010, along with the double...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/orkut
Orkut, Google's 2004 social network, was largely ignored in the United States but was the biggest social network in Brazil and hugely popular in India through 2010. Its...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/friendster
Friendster predated MySpace and Facebook, and although it had faded in the West by 2010, it was still one of the most popular sites in the Philippines, Malaysia and...
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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...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bieber-fever
Justin Bieber, discovered on YouTube in 2008, became the biggest teen star in the world in 2010. Beliebers organised on Twitter, where a Twitter engineer said Bieber...
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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?"
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/megavideo
Megaupload and its video arm Megavideo were among the busiest sites on the internet in 2010, hosting everything from legitimate file transfers to full seasons of pirated...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/grooveshark
Grooveshark let anyone stream almost any song on demand, free, from a slick Flash interface, because users uploaded the tracks themselves. It was hugely popular in 2010...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gizmodo
Gizmodo, Gawker Media's gadget blog, published the biggest tech story of 2010 on 19 April: photos and a teardown of a lost iPhone 4 prototype bought from someone who...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/something-awful
Something Awful's forums, where an account cost $9.95, were one of the most influential communities on the 2010 internet. Goons popularised Let's Play videos, ran early...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-cool-story-bro
cool story bro: Sarcastic dismissal of a boring or pointless post. Example: "cool story bro"
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-facepalm
facepalm: The gesture of despair at stupidity, used as a one-word reply. Example: "*facepalm*"
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cracked
Cracked.com, the former humour magazine, was at its peak in 2010 with numbered list articles about history, science and pop culture that were funnier and better...
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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...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/baby-justin-bieber
Released in February 2010, the video for Baby became the most-viewed video on YouTube in July 2010, overtaking Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, and eventually the most-disliked...
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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
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/telephone-lady-gaga
The Telephone video, released in March 2010, was a nine-minute prison-and-diner short film co-starring Beyoncé, crammed with product placements for Virgin Mobile, Diet...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-bff
bff: Best friends forever; also "bffl". Example: "me and my bff at the Bieber concert"
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hits-of-2010
Billboard's year-end Hot 100 for 2010 was led by Kesha's Tik Tok, followed by Lady Antebellum's Need You Now, Train's Hey, Soul Sister, Katy Perry's California Gurls and...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/glee
Glee was the pop-culture juggernaut of 2010: its cast recordings sold millions on iTunes, its Madonna and Lady Gaga tribute episodes were events, and "Gleeks" organised...
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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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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.