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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.

10 reconstructed results for reaction gif in the 2010 exhibit.

  1. The animated GIF returns - Reaction GIFs, GIF sets and Tumblr's looping economy

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gif-culture

    Animated GIFs, a 1990s relic, came roaring back in 2010 thanks to Tumblr's reblog culture: reaction GIFs from TV shows, GIF sets of scenes, and glitter graphics...

    CultureEditorialReconstructed result

  2. 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...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  3. Deal With It - Sunglasses drop, argument over

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/deal-with-it

    The "Deal With It" GIF, a pair of pixel sunglasses sliding onto a face, originated on the Something Awful forums in 2010 and became the standard way to end an argument...

    CultureSupportedReconstructed result

  4. Facepalm - Captain Picard, hand over face

    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...

    CultureSupportedReconstructed result

  5. wtf

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-wtf

    wtf: What the f***; the reaction to anything confusing, from a Facebook redesign to a Chatroulette stranger. Example: "wtf is a vuvuzela"

    SlangSupportedReconstructed result

  6. Tumblr famous - Having a large following on Tumblr and nowhere else.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-tumblr-famous

    Tumblr famous: Having a large following on Tumblr and nowhere else. Example: "she's Tumblr famous for her GIF sets"

    SlangEditorialReconstructed result

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

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/tumblr

    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...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  8. Amnesia: The Dark Descent - The horror game that made YouTube scream

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/amnesia-dark-descent

    Frictional Games' Amnesia, released in September 2010, gave players no weapons, only a lantern and a sanity meter. Its terror made it the perfect subject for webcam...

    GameVerifiedReconstructed result

  9. Me Gusta - The face for enjoying something you should not

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/me-gusta

    Me Gusta, a bulging-eyed face drawn by Matt Oswald in March 2010, was the rage comic reaction for guilty pleasure. It spread through Reddit and Tumblr through the year...

    CultureSupportedReconstructed result

  10. Chatroulette Piano Improv (Merton) - A hooded pianist serenading strangers

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/chatroulette-piano

    In March 2010 a hooded man known as Merton posted videos of himself improvising songs about the strangers Chatroulette paired him with, and their reactions. It was the...

    CultureSupportedReconstructed 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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