dub3 card · www.alexa.com
Alexa (1997)
A toolbar that told you who ran the site you were on, and where to surf next.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Epic
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Dead Links
What it does
On reveal: If you already have another Tech card here, +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
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.
Tech cards bend the rules: more RAM, cheaper cards and patches that weaken the other side.
The site, in 1997
Brewster Kahle's web-traffic company, whose free toolbar showed facts about each site you visited and suggested related sites; it later ranked the web by traffic.
Founded in April 1996 and named after the Library of Alexandria, it crawled and archived the web, and that archive formed the basis of the Internet Archive. Amazon bought it in 1999 for about $250 million and closed it on 1 May 2022.
In 1997: Its free toolbar was out in beta by July, showing each site's owner, size and popularity, and suggesting where to go next.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Dead Links: Gone, but not forgotten. Mostly forgotten.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1997 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1997, then plays a short scene. Want Alexa in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
