Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed
Google in 2010 was a white page with a colourful logo, one box and ten blue links. The year began with Google refusing to keep censoring results in...
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Section 4
Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.
42 reconstructed results for windows phone in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for windows phone
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-phone-7-devices
Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 in Europe on 21 October 2010 and in the US on 8 November, with phones such as the Samsung Focus, HTC HD7 and LG Quantum. The Metro...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-phone-7
Windows Phone 7 replaced the stylus-era Windows Mobile with a flat, typographic interface of live tiles and hubs, launching in October and November 2010. Reviewers...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
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...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/typical-2010-laptop
The mainstream laptop of 2010, from Dell, HP, Toshiba or Acer, ran Windows 7 Home Premium on an Intel Core 2 Duo or the new Core i3, with 3 or 4 GB of RAM, a 250 to 500...
ProductEditorialReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hotmail
Hotmail, by then branded Windows Live Hotmail, had hundreds of millions of accounts in 2010, many of them the first email address people ever created. A mid-2010 update...
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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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
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...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
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...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/netbooks
Netbooks, the 10-inch, $300 laptops with Intel Atom chips that had exploded in 2008 and 2009, peaked in 2010. They ran Windows 7 Starter or XP slowly, had cramped...
ProductSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nokia-n8
The Nokia N8, released in October 2010, had the best camera on any phone, a 12-megapixel sensor with a Carl Zeiss lens and HDMI output. It ran Symbian^3, which reviewers...
ProductSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/internet-explorer-8
Internet Explorer 8, bundled with Windows 7, was the single most-used browser version of 2010. It had tabs, a separate search box beside the address bar, Accelerators,...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/internet-explorer-9-beta
Released on 15 September 2010, the IE9 beta was Microsoft's answer to Chrome: a stripped-back interface with tabs beside the address bar, GPU-accelerated rendering, and...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/safari-5
Safari 5, released on 7 June 2010 for Mac and Windows, added Reader (a clean article view), extensions, Bing as a search option and a faster Nitro JavaScript engine. On...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/microsoft-kin
Microsoft's Kin One and Kin Two, aimed at teenagers who lived on Facebook and Twitter, went on sale in May 2010 on Verizon and were discontinued on 30 June, after...
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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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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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
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...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nexus-one
Google announced the HTC-built Nexus One on 5 January 2010 and sold it unlocked from its own web store for $529, an experiment in bypassing carriers that ended within...
ProductVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/htc-evo-4g
Released on 4 June 2010, the HTC Evo 4G was the first US phone sold as 4G, using Sprint's WiMAX network, which existed in only a few dozen cities. Its 4.3-inch screen...
ProductVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nokia-5230
Nokia was still the world's biggest phone maker in 2010, and phones like the 5230, a low-cost touchscreen Symbian handset, were why. It sold enormously across Europe,...
ProductSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mac-os-x-snow-leopard
Snow Leopard, released in August 2009 for $29, was the Mac OS of 2010: brushed-metal was gone, the Dock was a 3D shelf, Exposé and Spaces managed windows, and Safari 5...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
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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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hard-drives-2010
In 2010 a 1 TB desktop hard drive cost under $100, but solid-state drives were still exotic: an 80 to 128 GB SSD cost $200 to $300. Enthusiasts installed them as boot...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-froyo
Android 2.2, announced at Google I/O in May 2010, made Android phones two to five times faster with a JIT compiler, added Wi-Fi hotspot tethering, Chrome-to-Phone, apps...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-sexting
sexting: Sending sexual texts or photos by phone; a moral-panic word of 2009-2010. Example: "a school assembly about sexting"
SlangSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/htc-desire
The HTC Desire was essentially a Nexus One with HTC's Sense interface, an optical trackpad and physical buttons. Released in Europe in spring 2010, it became one of the...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blackberry-bold-9700
The Bold 9700 was the definitive 2010 BlackBerry: a compact QWERTY keyboard, an optical trackpad, the red blinking notification light, and BlackBerry Messenger....
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/feature-phones
Smartphones were still a minority in 2010: roughly one in five phones sold worldwide that year was a smartphone, according to Gartner. Most people carried feature...
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ipod-touch-4
The September 2010 iPod touch borrowed the iPhone 4's Retina display, A4 chip and FaceTime camera, starting at $229. For millions of teenagers it was the first App Store...
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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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Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed
Google in 2010 was a white page with a colourful logo, one box and ten blue links. The year began with Google refusing to keep censoring results in...
searchgooglegoogle instant
The former Ask Jeeves gives up on search
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...
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China's search engine, after Google walked away
Baidu was already the dominant search engine in China when Google stopped censoring google.cn in March 2010 and redirected users to Hong Kong....
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Microsoft's one-year-old "decision engine"
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...
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A computational knowledge engine
Launched in May 2009, Wolfram|Alpha answered questions by computing rather than searching: type a maths problem, a date, or two cities and it...
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The portal: mail, news, Answers and Flickr
Yahoo! was still one of the most-visited sites on Earth in 2010, thanks to Yahoo Mail, the news-heavy portal homepage, Yahoo Answers, Flickr and...
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Historical search result pages cannot be reproduced faithfully: they depended on the day, the location, the logged-in account and an index that no longer exists. Instead of pretending, this page searches the exhibit's own records and presents them in the visual language of a 2010 results page. Each result links to an entry with its sources and confidence label.