2010 Search

51 reconstructed results for word of the year in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. 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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3. The blogosphere - Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, RSS and the Technorati top 100

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogosphere-2010

   In 2010 blogs were still the intellectual centre of the web: personal blogs on Blogger and WordPress, mommy blogs, MP3 blogs, political blogs, and professional blog...

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4. facepalm - The gesture of despair at stupidity, used as a one-word reply.

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-facepalm

   facepalm: The gesture of despair at stupidity, used as a one-word reply. Example: "*facepalm*"

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5. sexting - Sending sexual texts or photos by phone; a moral-panic word of 2009-2010.

   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"

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6. FAIL and WIN - Epic fail, FAIL Blog, and the Fail Whale

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fail

   "FAIL", stamped over a photo of a mishap, was 2010's favourite one-word verdict, with "epic fail" for the worst cases and "WIN" for their opposite. FAIL Blog published a...

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7. friend / unfriend

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-friend

   friend / unfriend: To add or remove someone on Facebook; "unfriend" was the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 word of the year. Example: "she unfriended me after the...

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8. refudiate

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-refudiate

   refudiate: Sarah Palin's accidental blend of refute and repudiate, tweeted in July 2010 and named New Oxford American Dictionary's word of the year. Example: "Peaceful...

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9. meme

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-meme

   meme: An idea, image or joke that spreads and mutates online; in 2010 the word was crossing from Know Your Meme into ordinary speech. Example: "Sad Keanu is my favourite...

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10. 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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11. hashtag (#)

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-hashtag

    hashtag (#): A word prefixed with # to tag a tweet; proposed by Chris Messina in 2007, linked by Twitter in 2009, everywhere by 2010. Example: "#FollowFriday"

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12. Google Docs - Word processing in the browser, shared with a link

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-docs

    Google Docs let students write group projects in the same document at the same time, which felt like magic in 2010. In January it began storing any file type, and in...

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13. 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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14. Demotivational posters - A black border, a photo, a word in serif, and a cruel caption

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/demotivational-posters

    Demotivational posters parodied corporate motivational posters: a photo in a black frame, a one-word title and a deflating caption. Despair.com started the joke in 1998,...

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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. Netbooks - Tiny, cheap Atom laptops at their peak, then killed by the iPad

    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...

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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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24. Minecraft (Alpha and Beta) - A Java game sold from a one-man website, before it ruled the world

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/minecraft

    In 2010 Minecraft was an alpha you bought for about 10 euros from Markus "Notch" Persson's website and played in a Java window. Survival mode had arrived in 2009, Alpha...

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25. HTML5 - Native video, canvas and the end of plugins, still a draft

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/html5

    HTML5 was a working draft in 2010, but the fight over Flash made it a household word. YouTube launched an HTML5 player beta in January, Apple published a showcase in...

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26. AOL - Dial-up subscribers, AIM, and a content empire in the making

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/aol

    AOL was spun off from Time Warner in December 2009 and spent 2010 remaking itself as a content company: it bought TechCrunch in September, ran Engadget, and still...

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27. 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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28. Blogger - Blogspot blogs with orange Bs

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogger

    Blogger, Google-owned since 2003, hosted millions of free blogspot.com blogs in 2010, from personal diaries to recipe blogs to the MP3 blogs of the music-download era. A...

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29. Facepalm - Captain Picard, hand over face

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/facepalm

    The facepalm, especially the still of Captain Picard with his hand over his face, was the standard forum and Reddit reaction to stupidity in 2010, along with the double...

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30. Motorola Droid X - Verizon's big-screen Android, sold with a robot voice

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/droid-x

    Following the 2009 Motorola Droid that put Android on the map in the US, the Droid X arrived on Verizon in July 2010 with a 4.3-inch screen, an 8-megapixel camera and...

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