dub3 card · barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com
Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle (2008)
Reload for another small kindness from the candidate. He warmed up your car.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Weird Web
What it does
Ongoing: If this is your only card here, +3 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 6 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Creators cards are strongest on their own, and some only get going late.
The site, in 2008
A one-page site that showed a new random good deed by presidential candidate Barack Obama, such as warming up your car, each time it was reloaded.
Writer Mathew Honan launched it on 13 February 2008, and it topped Jason Kottke's list two days later, the post that named 'single-serving sites'. Copies for Hillary Clinton, John McCain and others followed, then a 366-deed book.
In 2008: Launched on 13 February during the Democratic primaries; within a day Time and The Economist had picked it up.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Weird Web: One page, one joke, no reason. The internet at its best.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2008 page.
Put it on your site
Run Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle, 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 2008, then plays a short scene. Want Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
