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2010 Search+

Section 4

2010 Search

Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.

35 reconstructed results for youtube in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for youtube

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Vevo - Official music videos come to YouTube

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vevo

    Vevo, a joint venture of Universal and Sony launched in December 2009, put official music videos on YouTube with premium ads. In 2010 its channels for Bieber, Gaga,...

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  5. The Annoying Orange - "Hey Apple!": the web series that became a TV show

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/annoying-orange

    Dane Boedigheimer's Annoying Orange, a talking orange with a human mouth and eyes, was one of the biggest channels on YouTube in 2010, with episodes routinely passing...

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  6. Let's Play videos - From Something Awful screenshots to YouTube commentary

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/lets-play

    Let's Plays, playing a game while narrating it, began as screenshot threads on Something Awful and became a YouTube video genre by 2010, with Minecraft and horror games...

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  7. Lady Gaga: Bad Romance - The video that ruled YouTube in early 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bad-romance

    Bad Romance, released in late 2009, dominated 2010: it was the most-viewed video on YouTube until Baby overtook it in July, won Grammys in 2011, and its "Rah rah,...

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  8. 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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  9. Justin Bieber - Sixteen, discovered on YouTube, and the most-searched person of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/justin-bieber

    Justin Bieber released My World 2.0 in March 2010, became the youngest solo male act to top the Billboard 200 in 47 years, and had the most-viewed video on YouTube by...

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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. troll / trolling

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-troll

    troll / trolling: Someone who provokes others online for fun, or the act of doing so. "Don't feed the trolls." Example: "he's just trolling the YouTube comments"

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  15. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 - The plugin that ran YouTube, FarmVille and every banner ad

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/flash-player-10-1

    Flash Player 10.1, released in June 2010, ran the YouTube player, Hulu, Pandora, FarmVille, every browser game and most animated adverts; Adobe said it was installed on...

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  16. Double Rainbow - "What does it mean?"

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/double-rainbow

    Paul Vasquez filmed a double rainbow over Yosemite in January 2010 and wept with joy on camera. The clip sat unnoticed until Jimmy Kimmel tweeted it in July, after which...

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  17. Amnesia: The Dark Descent - The horror game that made YouTube scream

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/amnesia-dark-descent

    Frictional Games' Amnesia, released in September 2010, gave players no weapons, only a lantern and a sanity meter. Its terror made it the perfect subject for webcam...

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  18. Trolling - Do not feed the trolls

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/trolling

    Trolling, provoking people online for amusement, was the internet's defining pastime in 2010, from YouTube comment wars to 4chan raids to Trollface. "Don't feed the...

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  19. Vimeo - Where filmmakers uploaded in HD

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vimeo

    Vimeo was the arty alternative to YouTube in 2010: cleaner pages, HD playback, no ads in the player, and a community of designers, animators and indie filmmakers. Its...

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  20. Vuvuzela - The droning horn of the 2010 World Cup, and the internet's loudest joke

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vuvuzela

    The vuvuzela, the plastic horn that droned through every 2010 World Cup broadcast from South Africa, became a meme within days: browser extensions added a vuvuzela to...

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  21. Rickrolling - Three years old and still catching people

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/rickroll

    Rickrolling, tricking someone into clicking a link to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, was a 2007 4chan prank that by 2010 was the internet's most famous...

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  22. Kesha: Tik Tok - Billboard's number-one song of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/tik-tok-kesha

    "Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy" opened the biggest song of 2010. Tik Tok topped the Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks and finished as Billboard's year-end...

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  23. Mobile data in 2010: 3G, caps, and the first 4G - A megabit or two on a good day, and the end of unlimited

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mobile-data-2010

    Most smartphones in 2010 used 3G networks that delivered a megabit or two in practice, enough for email, Facebook and a slow YouTube video. AT&T ended unlimited data for...

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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. The mobile web in 2010 - m.facebook.com, WAP pages, and a web that did not fit

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mobile-web-2010

    In 2010 the mobile web meant separate m.sites with stripped-down layouts (m.facebook.com, m.youtube.com), WAP pages on feature phones, and pinch-zooming full desktop...

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  27. 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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  28. CollegeHumor - Sketch comedy before YouTube channels

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/collegehumor

    CollegeHumor produced original comedy videos, such as Jake and Amir and Hardly Working, and hosted user-submitted pictures and articles. In 2010 it was one of the few...

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  29. eBaum's World - Flash videos, viral clips and content wars

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ebaums-world

    eBaum's World was a 2000s viral-media site that collected funny videos, Flash animations and images, often without credit, which made it notorious among creators. By...

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  30. 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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The search engines of 2010

  • Verified

    Google

    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

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    Ask.com

    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...

    searchask.comask jeeves

  • Supported

    Baidu

    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....

    searchbaiduchina

  • Supported

    Bing

    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...

    searchbingmicrosoft

  • Supported

    Wolfram|Alpha

    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...

    searchwolfram alphamaths

  • Supported

    Yahoo!

    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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Why these are not real Google results

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.

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