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Doctor Fun (1993)
One full-colour gag panel each weekday, on a web page of its own, from 1993.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Pioneer (up to 1994)
- Collection
- Dead Links
What it does
Each round end: If this is your only card here, +1 Power to this card.
Each round end fires as every round finishes.
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.
Creators cards are strongest on their own, and some only get going late.
The site, in 1993
David Farley's single-panel gag cartoon about science, pop culture and plain oddness, posted on its own web page.
It began on 24 September 1993 and has been called the first comic published on the web. United Media carried it from 1995, and it ran until June 2006, over 2,600 cartoons in all.
In 1993: The first cartoon went up on 24 September, and within a month a writer at NCSA hailed it as a breakthrough for the web.
Pioneer era, up to 1994. Grey pages, blue links and a browser called Mosaic. Images were optional. So was colour.
Dead Links: Gone, but not forgotten. Mostly forgotten.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1993 page.
Put it on your site
Run Doctor Fun, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1993. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1993, then plays a short scene. Want Doctor Fun in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
