dub3 card · www.compuserve.com
CompuServe (1996)
The original online service — pre-web, pre-everything.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 4
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
Ongoing: +2 Power to this card for each card you have here, up to +4.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 4 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.
The site, in 1996
The first major commercial online service in the US, which opened in Columbus, Ohio, in 1969 as a timesharing service for companies.
It opened to the public around 1979, and introduced the GIF image format. AOL bought it in 1997, and the original service shut in 2009 after 30 years.
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.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1996, then plays a short scene. Want CompuServe in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
