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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.

38 reconstructed results for red dead redemption in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for red dead redemption

  1. Red Dead Redemption - Rockstar's western, the game of the year for many

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/red-dead-redemption

    Red Dead Redemption, released on 18 May 2010, put Rockstar's open-world design in the dying American West. It won many game-of-the-year awards, its Undead Nightmare...

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  2. The Walking Dead premieres - AMC's zombie drama arrives on Halloween 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/walking-dead-premiere

    The Walking Dead premiered on AMC on 31 October 2010 to 5.3 million viewers, a cable record for a series premiere, and went on to become the most-watched drama on...

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  3. necro - Reviving a long-dead forum thread, usually frowned upon.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-necro

    necro: Reviving a long-dead forum thread, usually frowned upon. Example: "nice necro, this thread is from 2007"

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  4. Alan Wake - A writer, a flashlight, and the dark

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/alan-wake

    Remedy's Alan Wake, released in May 2010 for the Xbox 360, was a Twin Peaks-flavoured thriller about a novelist fighting shadows with a flashlight. It launched the same...

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  5. 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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  6. Know Your Meme - The internet's meme encyclopedia

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/know-your-meme

    Know Your Meme documented the origin and spread of memes with the seriousness of an encyclopedia and the deadpan of a science show. Started by the Rocketboom video blog...

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  7. Rage comics - FFFFFUUUU, Trollface, Forever Alone, Me Gusta, Y U NO

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/rage-comics

    Rage comics were crude, four-panel MS Paint strips about everyday frustrations, drawn with a shared cast of stick-figure faces. Born on 4chan in 2008, they peaked in...

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  8. Sad Keanu - A paparazzi photo of Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich, Photoshopped everywhere

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/sad-keanu

    A May 2010 paparazzi photo of Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich alone on a New York bench became Sad Keanu in June, when Reddit and 4chan users cut him out and pasted him...

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  9. tl;dr

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-tldr

    tl;dr: Too long; didn't read. A complaint about a long post, or a one-line summary placed at the end of one. Example: "tl;dr Digg v4 sucks, we're all on Reddit now"

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  10. Advice Animals - Philosoraptor, Socially Awkward Penguin, Courage Wolf and friends

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/advice-animals

    Advice Animals were image macros with an animal's head on a colour-wheel background and a two-line joke in Impact font. Advice Dog started it in 2006; by 2010...

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  11. 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"

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  12. Netflix - Red envelopes, and a streaming-only plan

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/netflix

    In 2010 Netflix was still mostly a DVD-by-mail company, but streaming was taking over: Watch Instantly worked on the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, Roku and, from August, the...

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  13. 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...

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  14. Flip Video camcorder - Press the red button, flip out the USB plug

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/flip-video

    The Flip Video, owned by Cisco since 2009, was the pocket camcorder of 2010: a big red record button, a flip-out USB connector and one-click YouTube uploads. Millions...

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  15. Opera 10.5 and Opera 11 - Small share, big ideas: Turbo, Speed Dial and tab stacking

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/opera-10-5

    Opera had only around 2 percent of desktop browser usage in 2010 but kept inventing features others copied: Speed Dial, mouse gestures, Opera Turbo compression, and, in...

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  16. Digg - Social news, and the redesign that broke it

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/digg

    Digg let users "digg" stories onto a front page that could crash a small website with traffic. In August 2010, Digg version 4 removed favourite features, let publishers...

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  17. Twitter - 140 characters and the Fail Whale

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/twitter

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

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/youtube

    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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  19. 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...

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  20. 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...

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  21. Forum culture - vBulletin, phpBB, signatures, post counts and the ban hammer

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/forums-2010

    Before Reddit and Discord ate them, forums were where the internet talked in 2010: vBulletin and phpBB boards for every hobby, game and band, with avatars, signature...

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  22. 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...

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  23. "X all the Y!" (Clean all the things) - From Hyperbole and a Half to every to-do list

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/x-all-the-y

    In June 2010, Allie Brosh's blog Hyperbole and a Half published "This is Why I'll Never be an Adult", with a crudely drawn figure shouting "CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!" The...

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  24. 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...

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  25. 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...

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  26. 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...

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  27. Ask.com - The former Ask Jeeves gives up on search

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ask-com

    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 November 2010 it...

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  28. Wolfram|Alpha - A computational knowledge engine

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wolfram-alpha

    Launched in May 2009, Wolfram|Alpha answered questions by computing rather than searching: type a maths problem, a date, or two cities and it returned calculated...

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  29. Baidu - China's search engine, after Google walked away

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/baidu

    Baidu was already the dominant search engine in China when Google stopped censoring google.cn in March 2010 and redirected users to Hong Kong. Baidu's share of Chinese...

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  30. Amazon - Books, Kindle, and a store that sold everything

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/amazon

    Amazon in 2010 was the everything store with a cluttered tan-and-orange homepage, two-day shipping for $79-a-year Prime members, and a Kindle business so successful that...

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The search engines of 2010

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    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

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    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

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    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...

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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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