dub3 card · www.academia.edu
Academia.edu (2008)
Still in beta.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 3
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Establishment
What it does
Ongoing: +1 Power to your other cards here.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 3 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.
The site, in 2008
A commercial site where researchers share their academic papers, free to read but with uploads and downloads limited to registered users.
It sits on a .edu address registered in 1999, before that ending was reserved for schools and colleges. By 2026 it had over 300 million registered users and more than 55 million papers.
In 2008: The year it launched, founded by Richard Price.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Establishment: Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2008 page.
Put it on your site
Run Academia.edu, 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 2008, then plays a short scene. Want Academia.edu in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
