dub3 card · www.altavista.com
AltaVista (1996)
The fast, powerful search engine before Google.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 5
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Dead Links
What it does
On reveal: Draw 1 card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 5 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 1996
A search engine from Digital Equipment Corporation's Palo Alto labs, with a plain yellow-and-orange page and a crawler named Scooter.
Launched in December 1995 as the first full-text searchable index of the web, and passed 80 million hits a day by 1997, the year it added Babel Fish translation. Yahoo bought it in 2003 and redirected it in 2013.
In 1996: Became the exclusive provider of search results for Yahoo, a year after it launched.
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 1996 page.
Put it on your site
Run AltaVista, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1996. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1996, then plays a short scene. Want AltaVista in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
