dub3 card · www.20q.net
20Q.net (1999)
Think of a thing. A neural network asks twenty questions, then takes a guess.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 2
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- Cult Classics
What it does
No ability.
No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 2 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Games cards roll the dice. Sometimes the dice roll you.
The site, in 1999
An online game of twenty questions played against an artificial neural network that learns from the people who play it.
Robin Burgener wrote it in 1988 and passed it round on floppy disk. By 2006 the web version knew about 10,000 objects and drew 30,000 to 50,000 players a day, and Radica's handheld version became a holiday best-seller.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
Cult Classics: Small, strange and loved to bits by the people who found them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1999 page.
Put it on your site
Run 20Q.net, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1999, then plays a short scene. Want 20Q.net in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
