dub3 card · cyworld.com
Cyworld (1999)
Everyone was here. Nobody remembers why.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
When you play a card here: +1 Power to this card.
When you play a card here fires each time you add another card to that lane.
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.
Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.
The site, in 1999
A South Korean social network where members kept a decorated mini-room and a home page, and linked up as ilchon friends.
In early 2007 it passed 20 million members, about half of South Korea. It earned from dotori, acorns that bought virtual furniture and music. Facebook's arrival in Korea in 2009 began its slide.
In 1999: The idea began in August, in a KAIST student club's research project. Dong-Hyung Lee took over as chief executive that December.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1999 page.
Put it on your site
Run Cyworld, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1999, then plays a short scene. Want Cyworld in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
