2010 Search

41 reconstructed results for video chat in the 2010 exhibit.

1. Google Talk and Gmail Chat - Chat inside your inbox

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-talk

   Google Talk, and the Gmail Chat box built into the Gmail sidebar, let people message and video chat without installing anything. In 2010 it was quietly replacing AIM for...

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2. Omegle - Talk to strangers

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/omegle

   Omegle launched in 2009 as an anonymous text chat with strangers and added video chat in March 2010 as Chatroulette's popularity surged. Its tagline, "Talk to...

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3. Windows Live Messenger (MSN) - Nudges, winks and display names full of lyrics

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-live-messenger

   Still called MSN by almost everyone, Windows Live Messenger was the dominant instant messenger outside the United States in 2010, with hundreds of millions of users. Its...

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4. Chatroulette Piano Improv (Merton) - A hooded pianist serenading strangers

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/chatroulette-piano

   In March 2010 a hooded man known as Merton posted videos of himself improvising songs about the strangers Chatroulette paired him with, and their reactions. It was the...

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5. AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) - Buddy lists and away messages, fading fast

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/aim

   AIM had defined instant messaging in America for a decade, with its running-man icon, buddy lists, door-opening sounds and passive-aggressive away messages. By 2010 it...

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6. 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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7. brb - Be right back; announced in chat before stepping away from MSN or AIM.

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-brb

   brb: Be right back; announced in chat before stepping away from MSN or AIM. Example: "brb mom needs the computer"

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8. Webcams - Grainy 640-by-480 video for Skype, Chatroulette and vlogs

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/webcams-2010

   Most 2010 laptops had a built-in low-resolution webcam, and desktops used a Logitech clip-on, which made Skype calls, MSN video chat, Chatroulette and YouTube vlogging...

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9. Skype - Free calls over the internet, video included

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/skype

   Skype was how families called abroad and how long-distance couples saw each other in 2010. It reported more than 500 million registered users, offered free...

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10. Facebook - The social network at 500 million users

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/facebook

    In 2010 Facebook was six years old, had just overtaken Google as the most-visited site in the United States on some weekly measures, and passed 500 million users in...

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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. Gmail - Conversations, labels, and 7 GB of storage

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gmail

    Gmail had left beta in 2009 and by 2010 was the email of choice for anyone under 35, with conversation threading, labels instead of folders and more than 7 GB of free...

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13. Kongregate - Flash games with achievements, bought by GameStop

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/kongregate

    Kongregate hosted thousands of free browser games with badges, chat rooms beside every game and a levelling system for players. GameStop bought it in July 2010, betting...

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14. Entry-level DSLRs: Canon EOS 60D and Nikon D3100 - The year everyone's photographer friend shot video too

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/dslr-2010

    DSLRs became affordable and shot HD video in 2010. The Nikon D3100 (August) was the first Nikon DSLR with full 1080p video and cost $699 with a lens; the Canon EOS 60D...

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15. Epic Beard Man - "I am a motherf***ing ambulance"

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/epic-beard-man

    A February 2010 cellphone video of a fight on an Oakland bus involving a 67-year-old bearded man became one of the year's first viral sensations, generating remixes, a...

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16. OK Go: This Too Shall Pass (Rube Goldberg machine) - One take, one warehouse, one enormous machine

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ok-go-this-too-shall-pass

    OK Go, already famous for their treadmill video, released a single-take video in March 2010 in which a warehouse-sized Rube Goldberg machine plays out over four minutes....

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17. lol - Laughing out loud; by 2010 mostly a punctuation mark meaning "I am being friendly".

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-lol

    lol: Laughing out loud; by 2010 mostly a punctuation mark meaning "I am being friendly". Example: "cant make it tonight lol"

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18. BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) - PINs, the D and the R, and free unlimited messaging

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blackberry-messenger

    BBM let BlackBerry owners message each other free over the data plan, with delivered and read receipts, group chats and PIN-swapping as a social ritual. In 2010 it was a...

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19. Bing - Microsoft's one-year-old "decision engine"

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bing

    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 2010 it took over...

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20. Groupon - One deal a day, and a $6 billion offer refused

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/groupon

    Groupon emailed one local deal a day, half-price yoga classes or restaurant vouchers, that only activated if enough people bought in. It was called the fastest-growing...

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21. Quora - Questions answered by people who were there

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/quora

    Quora opened to the public in June 2010, founded by two former Facebook engineers. Its promise was answers from people with first-hand knowledge, and in 2010 Silicon...

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22. RuneScape - The browser MMO played in the school library

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/runescape

    RuneScape ran in a browser with Java, needed no download, and had millions of players in 2010. Its low-polygon world, skill grinding, Wilderness PvP and player-run...

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23. Club Penguin - Disney's virtual world for kids

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/club-penguin

    Club Penguin was the safe, moderated virtual world where children waddled around as penguins, played mini-games and decorated igloos. Disney had bought it in 2007, and...

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24. Habbo Hotel - Pixel rooms and furni

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/habbo

    Habbo Hotel, the Finnish virtual hotel of isometric pixel rooms, was where teenagers hung out and traded "furni" in 2010. Its Shockwave client, guest rooms and games...

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25. 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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26. Bed Intruder Song - "Hide yo kids, hide yo wife": the most-watched video of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bed-intruder-song

    Antoine Dodson's furious, funny interview on a Huntsville, Alabama news broadcast in July 2010 was Auto-Tuned into a song by the Gregory Brothers days later. YouTube...

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27. 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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28. Justin Bieber: Baby (feat. Ludacris) - The most-viewed video on YouTube, and the most disliked

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/baby-justin-bieber

    Released in February 2010, the video for Baby became the most-viewed video on YouTube in July 2010, overtaking Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, and eventually the most-disliked...

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29. iPhone 4 - Retina display, FaceTime, and the antenna you could not hold

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/iphone-4

    Announced on 7 June 2010 and on sale on 24 June, the iPhone 4 introduced the 960-by-640 Retina display, a front camera for FaceTime video calls, a 5-megapixel camera...

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30. 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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