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Cool Site of the Day (1994)
One link a day, picked by hand, and every webmaster hoped tomorrow's would be theirs.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Pioneer (up to 1994)
- Collection
- Cult Classics
What it does
On reveal: +2 Power to a random card in your hand.
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.
Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.
The site, in 1994
A page that pointed to one recommended website each day, made by Glenn Davis and hosted at InfiNet, the Virginia ISP where he worked.
Within a year it drew over 20,000 visits a day and made Davis a celebrity, dubbed the King of Cool by Newsweek. Its first Cool Site of the Year award came in August 1995, and by 1997 it had thousands of imitators.
In 1994: Launched in August. Its first pick was a mountain photo from a stock-art CD, and by the end of the year it had about 10,000 visits a day.
Pioneer era, up to 1994. Grey pages, blue links and a browser called Mosaic. Images were optional. So was colour.
Cult Classics: Small, strange and loved to bits by the people who found them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1994 page.
Put it on your site
Run Cool Site of the Day, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1994. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1994, then plays a short scene. Want Cool Site of the Day in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
