dub3 card · www.mturk.com
Amazon Mechanical Turk (2005)
Please upgrade your plug-in.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 5
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: Your opponent can't play here next round.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
A locked lane takes no cards next round.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 5 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 2005
A crowdsourcing site where businesses posted small tasks, such as labelling images, and remote workers did them for a fee.
Named after the Mechanical Turk, an old chess-playing machine that secretly hid a human player. Amazon announced in August 2026 that it would close the service, and it did so on 30 September 2026.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2005 page.
Put it on your site
Run Amazon Mechanical Turk, 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 2005, then plays a short scene. Want Amazon Mechanical Turk in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
