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dub3's pixel tribute to Better World Books in 2002: a Dot-com-era online shop
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2002 page

dub3 card · betterworldbooks.com

Better World Books (2002)

Y2K compliant.

Cost
3 RAM
Power
6
Rarity
Common
Family
Commerce
Era
Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
Collection
The Long Tail

What it does

No ability.

No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.

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.

Commerce cards grow every round and make your opponent pay more to play.

The site, in 2002

An online bookseller of used and new books, founded in 2002 by students at the University of Notre Dame.

Its used stock comes largely from book drives at over 1,800 colleges and universities and donations from over 3,000 library systems. It ships from warehouses in Indiana, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Dunfermline, Scotland.

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 2002 page.

Put it on your site

Run Better World Books, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 2002. Paste this into your page:

Better World Books is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2002, then plays a short scene. Want Better World Books in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.