dub3 card · www.bluemountain.com
Blue Mountain (1996)
Free greeting cards by email, and a dot-com price tag of $780 million.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 9
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Commerce
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
Each round end: +1 Power to this card.
Each round end fires as every round finishes.
It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 9 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 1996
Blue Mountain Arts' free electronic greeting card site, one of the earliest and most widely used e-card services on the web.
Susan Polis Schutz and Stephen Schutz's card and poetry publisher opened bluemountain.com in 1996. Excite@Home bought it in 1999 in a deal valued at $780 million; American Greetings paid $35 million in 2001.
In 1996: Blue Mountain Arts opened its free e-card site this year.
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 1996 page.
Put it on your site
Run Blue Mountain, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1996. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1996, then plays a short scene. Want Blue Mountain in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
