dub3 card · www.askoxford.com
AskOxford.com (2001)
The Oxford English Dictionary's first attempt at a web presence.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Commerce
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: Enemy cards cost 2 more to play here.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 1 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Commerce cards grow every round and make your opponent pay more to play.
The site, in 2001
Oxford University Press's website where staff answered public questions about English, with word-origin pages and dictionary content.
It opened in 2001, free to use. In 2010 its dictionary content moved to Oxford Dictionaries Online, which later became Lexico, closed on 26 August 2022.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2001 page.
Put it on your site
Run AskOxford.com, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 2001. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2001, then plays a short scene. Want AskOxford.com in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
