dub3 card · www.biblegateway.com
Bible Gateway (1993)
Look up any verse and read it in translation after translation, side by side.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Pioneer (up to 1994)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
No ability.
No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 8 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 1993
A searchable online Bible that shows passages in many versions and languages and lets readers compare up to five translations at once.
Nick Hengeveld started it at Calvin College in Michigan in 1993, written as a Perl CGI script. It moved to the Gospel Communications Network in 1995, was bought by Zondervan in 2008, and by 2021 held 232 versions in 74 languages.
In 1993: Began at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, first planned as a static HTML presentation of the Bible.
Pioneer era, up to 1994. Grey pages, blue links and a browser called Mosaic. Images were optional. So was colour.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1993 page.
Put it on your site
Run Bible Gateway, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1993. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1993, then plays a short scene. Want Bible Gateway in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
