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dub3's pixel tribute to Blackboard Learn in 1997: a Boom-era education site
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1997 page

dub3 card · blackboard.com/lms

Blackboard Learn (1997)

Please upgrade your plug-in.

Cost
2 RAM
Power
3
Rarity
Common
Family
Tech
Era
Boom (1995 to 1998)
Collection
The Long Tail

What it does

On reveal: A random card in your hand costs 1 less.

On reveal happens once, when the card flips.

It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 3 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.

Tech cards bend the rules: more RAM, cheaper cards and patches that weaken the other side.

The site, in 1997

A web-based learning platform for colleges and schools, handling course materials and online classes.

Teachers could add online parts to ordinary classroom courses or run a course entirely online. It could be installed on a school's own servers or hosted for them.

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 1997 page.

Put it on your site

Run Blackboard Learn, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1997. Paste this into your page:

Blackboard Learn is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1997, then plays a short scene. Want Blackboard Learn in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.