2010 Search

21 reconstructed results for software in the 2010 exhibit.

1. the cloud - Servers somewhere else; the 2010 buzzword for storing files and running software online.

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-the-cloud

   the cloud: Servers somewhere else; the 2010 buzzword for storing files and running software online. Example: "it's all in the cloud now"

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2. Browser toolbars - Yahoo, Google, Ask, AVG, MyWebSearch... stacked five deep

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/browser-toolbars

   Toolbars were the plague of the 2010 browser: bundled with Java updates, antivirus software and free downloads, they stacked below the address bar until the page was a...

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3. Microsoft Office 2010 - The Ribbon everywhere, and Office Web Apps in the browser

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/office-2010

   Office 2010, released to consumers on 15 June 2010, put the Ribbon interface in every application, added the Backstage file view, and launched free Office Web Apps that...

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4. Adobe Creative Suite 5 - Content-Aware Fill, and Flash CS5's blocked iPhone exporter

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/adobe-cs5

   Adobe CS5, released in April 2010, brought Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill (the demo video went viral), 64-bit Photoshop on the Mac, and Dreamweaver's CSS improvements....

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5. µTorrent - The tiny BitTorrent client on every second PC

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/utorrent

   µTorrent was the lightweight BitTorrent client most people used in 2010 to download Linux ISOs, and everything else. Its green-and-white window of progress bars, seeds...

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6. Canabalt - One button, endless rooftops

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/canabalt

   Canabalt, made by Adam Saltsman in 2009 for a Flash game jam, invented the one-button endless runner: a man in a suit sprinting across rooftops as a city collapses. In...

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7. 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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8. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 - The plugin that ran YouTube, FarmVille and every banner ad

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/flash-player-10-1

   Flash Player 10.1, released in June 2010, ran the YouTube player, Hulu, Pandora, FarmVille, every browser game and most animated adverts; Adobe said it was installed on...

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9. Opera Mini - The browser that made feature-phone internet bearable

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/opera-mini

   Opera Mini compressed pages on Opera's servers before sending them to the phone, which made it the most-used mobile browser in the world in 2010, especially on feature...

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10. Browser plugins: Flash, Java, Silverlight, QuickTime - The web ran on plugins, and every one of them wanted an update

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/browser-plugins

    In 2010 the browser was a host for plugins: Flash for video and games, Java for RuneScape and bank sites, Silverlight for Netflix, QuickTime and RealPlayer for media,...

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

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/the-pirate-bay

    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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12. 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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13. WordPress.com - Hosted WordPress, and the software running the blogosphere

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wordpress-com

    WordPress powered a large share of the blogs and news sites of 2010, and WordPress.com offered hosted blogs with themes and stats for free. WordPress 3.0, released in...

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14. jQuery 1.4 - Write less, do more: the JavaScript library on most of the web

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/jquery

    jQuery 1.4, released in January 2010, was the JavaScript library almost every site used to animate menus, load content with Ajax and paper over browser differences,...

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15. Node.js and npm - JavaScript on the server, one year old

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nodejs-npm

    Node.js, presented by Ryan Dahl in 2009, reached version 0.2 in 2010 and npm, its package manager, was first published in January 2010. Backbone.js, CoffeeScript and the...

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16. Bitcoin in 2010 - Ten thousand coins for two pizzas

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bitcoin-2010

    Bitcoin was a year old and worth almost nothing in 2010. On 22 May, Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, the first recorded purchase with the currency. The Mt....

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17. Firesheep - The Firefox extension that hijacked Facebook sessions on café Wi-Fi

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/firesheep

    Released on 24 October 2010, Firesheep let anyone on the same open Wi-Fi network click into other people's Facebook, Twitter and Amazon sessions, because those sites...

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18. Nexus S - Gingerbread and the first NFC Android phone

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nexus-s

    The Samsung-made Nexus S launched on 16 December 2010 as the first phone with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and an NFC chip, years before contactless payments mattered. Its...

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19. 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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20. 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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