dub3 card · es.CDBaby.com
CD Baby (1998)
Tune in. Log on. Wait a bit.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 2
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
No ability.
No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 2 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 1998
A distributor for independent musicians, based in Portland, Oregon, that gets their music onto streaming services.
Derek Sivers set it up in Woodstock, New York, in March 1998. Disc Makers bought it for $22 million in 2008 and Downtown for $200 million in 2019. It stopped handling physical CDs in June 2023 and became digital only.
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 1998 page.
Put it on your site
Run CD Baby, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1998. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1998, then plays a short scene. Want CD Baby in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
