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Ars Technica (1998)
Best viewed in Netscape 4.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +3 Power to the next card you play.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 4 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Media cards broadcast Power to your other lanes.
The site, in 1998
A technology news and reviews site started by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes, covering hardware, software, science and policy.
Its name is Latin for 'art of technology'. Condé Nast bought it in 2008 in a $25 million deal for three sites. In 2012 it logged 15.3 million page views in a single day, during its iPhone 5 launch coverage.
In 1998: Fisher and Stokes created it this year. Fisher wrote from his parents' house in Boston and Stokes from Chicago.
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 Ars Technica in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
