2010 Search

11 reconstructed results for traffic in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. StumbleUpon - Press the button, see a random great page

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/stumbleupon

   StumbleUpon's toolbar button sent you to a random web page matched to your interests, and its thumbs-up votes could send millions of visitors to an obscure site. Newly...

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3. Windows 7 - The Windows people actually liked, one year old

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-7

   Windows 7 shipped in October 2009 and by the end of 2010 ran roughly a quarter of the world's desktop web traffic, while Windows XP still ran about half. Its Aero glass...

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4. 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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5. Windows XP - Nine years old and still the most-used OS on Earth

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-xp

   Windows XP, released in 2001, was still the most common desktop operating system in 2010, running about half of the world's desktop web traffic. Its green Start button...

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6. Windows Vista - The one everyone skipped

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-vista

   Windows Vista, released to consumers in 2007, was widely disliked for its User Account Control prompts, driver problems and heavy hardware needs. By 2010 it was already...

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7. 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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8. The Huffington Post - The blog that became a newspaper

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/huffington-post

   The Huffington Post mixed aggregated news, celebrity bloggers and huge headlines into the busiest news blog of 2010, with comment sections in the thousands. Its traffic...

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9. Stack Overflow - Programming answers, upvoted

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/stack-overflow

   Stack Overflow, launched in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, had become the default place programmers looked for answers by 2010. The reputation system,...

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10. Bieber Fever and the Beliebers - The first pop star made by YouTube and Twitter

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bieber-fever

    Justin Bieber, discovered on YouTube in 2008, became the biggest teen star in the world in 2010. Beliebers organised on Twitter, where a Twitter engineer said Bieber...

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