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Cut-the-Knot (1996)
Best viewed in Netscape 4.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 4
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Tech
- 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 2 RAM to play and brings 4 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Tech cards bend the rules: more RAM, cheaper cards and patches that weaken the other side.
The site, in 1996
A mathematics education site on geometry, probability, algebra and maths games, begun by the mathematician Alexander Bogomolny.
He started it in October 1996 and kept it going until he died in 2018. One page of proofs of the Pythagorean theorem runs past 100. Bogomolny was professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Iowa.
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 Cut-the-Knot, 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 Cut-the-Knot in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
