2010 Search

32 reconstructed results for torrents in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. 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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3. Megaupload and Megavideo - File lockers, 72-minute limits and pirated TV

   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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4. RapidShare - Wait 60 seconds, then download

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/rapidshare

   RapidShare was the file locker of the late 2000s: paste a link, wait through a countdown, download one file at a time unless you paid for premium. In 2010 it was still...

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5. VKontakte - Russia's Facebook, with a music library

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vkontakte

   VKontakte (VK) was the dominant social network across Russia and the former Soviet states in 2010. Its interface closely resembled early Facebook, but it let users...

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6. app

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-app

   app: A smartphone application; the American Dialect Society's 2010 word of the year. "There's an app for that." Example: "is there an app for that?"

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7. I see what you did there - Acknowledging a pun or a sly joke.

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-i-see-what-you-did-there

   I see what you did there: Acknowledging a pun or a sly joke. Example: "'Bed Intruder Song' on the Billboard charts... I see what you did there"

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8. iGoogle - Your personalised homepage of gadgets

   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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9. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) - Linux for people, with a new purple theme

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ubuntu-10-04

   Ubuntu 10.04, released in April 2010, was the Linux distribution most likely to be found on a netbook or a curious student's dual-boot laptop. It introduced a...

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10. Foursquare - Check in, become the mayor

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/foursquare

    Foursquare made 2010 the year of the check-in. Users broadcast their location to friends, collected badges, and fought to become the "mayor" of their coffee shop. The...

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11. poke

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-poke

    poke: A Facebook feature that notified someone you had poked them, and nothing else. Nobody knew what it meant. Example: "why does my aunt keep poking me"

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12. Rule 34

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-rule-34

    Rule 34: "If it exists, there is porn of it": one of the Rules of the Internet, from a 2003 webcomic. Example: "Rule 34, no exceptions"

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13. 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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14. 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...

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15. Chatroulette - Random strangers, webcam to webcam

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/chatroulette

    Chatroulette paired you with a random stranger over webcam and let either of you hit Next. Built by 17-year-old Andrey Ternovskiy in late 2009, it exploded in February...

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16. WikiLeaks - Collateral Murder, the war logs and Cablegate

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wikileaks

    WikiLeaks defined the news in 2010. It published the Collateral Murder helicopter video in April, the Afghan War Diary in July, the Iraq War Logs in October, and began...

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17. iPad - A 9.7-inch tablet nobody knew they needed

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ipad-1

    Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad on 27 January 2010 and it went on sale in the US on 3 April, selling 300,000 on the first day and a million within a month. It ran iPhone...

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18. The YouTube stars of 2010 - Ray William Johnson, Smosh, nigahiga, Fred, Shane Dawson

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/youtube-creators-2010

    In 2010 the most-subscribed YouTube channels belonged to comedians who edited themselves in their bedrooms: Ray William Johnson's =3 viral-video reviews, Smosh's...

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19. Call of Duty: Black Ops - $360 million in 24 hours, the biggest launch in entertainment history

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/call-of-duty-black-ops

    Call of Duty: Black Ops, released on 9 November 2010, sold about 5.6 million copies in its first 24 hours in the US and UK, worth $360 million, then the biggest...

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20. 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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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. 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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23. 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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24. 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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25. The App Store in 2010 - "There's an app for that": 300,000 apps and counting

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/app-store-2010

    Apple's App Store passed 300,000 apps in late 2010 and had served billions of downloads since opening in 2008; the American Dialect Society named "app" its word of the...

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26. Orkut - Google's social network that Brazil and India loved

    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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27. Bebo - The UK and Ireland's teen network, sold for a pittance

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bebo

    Bebo had been the biggest social network among teenagers in the UK and Ireland, and AOL bought it for $850 million in 2008. In June 2010 AOL sold it to Criterion Capital...

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28. Ringtones and ringback tones - The $2.99 ringtone business in its last big years

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ringtones-2010

    Ringtones were still a multi-billion-dollar business in 2010, sold by carriers and services like Myxer and Jamster, and Myxer was one of Google's fastest-rising searches...

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29. Words with Friends - Scrabble by push notification

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/words-with-friends

    Words with Friends, from Newtoy, turned Scrabble into a slow, asynchronous game between phones, with dozens of matches running at once. It was huge on the iPhone in...

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30. Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver - Johto remade, with a Pokéwalker pedometer in the box

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/pokemon-heartgold-soulsilver

    The DS remakes of Pokémon Gold and Silver reached North America and Europe in March 2010, bundled with the Pokéwalker pedometer. They sold more than 12 million copies...

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