2010 Search

18 reconstructed results for reddit in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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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...

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10. "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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11. 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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12. eBaum's World - Flash videos, viral clips and content wars

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ebaums-world

    eBaum's World was a 2000s viral-media site that collected funny videos, Flash animations and images, often without credit, which made it notorious among creators. By...

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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. Haters Gonna Hate - A strutting cartoon and a shrug at criticism

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/haters-gonna-hate

    "Haters gonna hate", paired with an image of someone strutting obliviously (often a cartoon character or a walking pigeon), spread across Tumblr and Reddit in 2010 as...

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