dub3 card · www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate
Boilerplate (2000)
The true history of a Victorian robot who met Teddy Roosevelt. Except it isn't true.
- Cost
- 6 RAM
- Power
- 12
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Weird Web
What it does
Ongoing: If this is your only card here, +4 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 6 RAM to play and brings 12 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 2000
A mock-history site about a robot supposedly built in the 1880s, with doctored archive photos placing it beside figures such as Theodore Roosevelt and Pancho Villa.
Portland artist Paul Guinan made it in 2000 for a comics character. He reckoned a third of visitors took it as real, so he worked to make the history even more convincing. It became a 2009 book, and J. J. Abrams's company took a film option.
In 2000: Paul Guinan put the site online with Boilerplate's made-up history, its photos starring a 12-inch model.
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 Weird Web: One page, one joke, no reason. The internet at its best.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2000 page.
Put it on your site
Run Boilerplate, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 2000. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2000, then plays a short scene. Want Boilerplate in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
