dub3 card · www.about.com
About.com (1998)
Expert guides on everything, written by real humans.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
Ongoing: +1 Power to this card for each card you have here, up to +3.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 8 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.
The site, in 1998
A site of expert guides on subjects from health to cooking, each written by a person hired to cover one topic.
It began in 1997 as The Mining Company and took the name About.com in May 1999. Primedia bought it in 2000 for $690 million in stock, and it was rebranded as Dotdash in 2017.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1998 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1998, then plays a short scene. Want About.com in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
