dub3 card · www.booking.com
booking.com (1996)
Best viewed in Netscape 4.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Commerce
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: The first card you play next round costs 1 less.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 1 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
A Dutch online travel agency, based in Amsterdam, for booking hotels, apartments and other places to stay around the world.
It lists about 3.4 million properties in over 220 countries. In 2020 the US Supreme Court ruled that the name could be trademarked, despite booking being a plain word.
In 1996: Geert-Jan Bruinsma, a student at the University of Twente, founded it as Bookings.nl.
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 booking.com, 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 booking.com in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
