dub3 card · www.drudgereport.com
Drudge Report (1997)
The most powerful page on the internet, built entirely with HTML 1.0.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +1 Power to your cards in other lanes.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 6 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Media cards broadcast Power to your other lanes.
The site, in 1997
A page of headline links to other outlets' stories, in plain monospaced type, put together by Matt Drudge and a small team.
Newsweek was holding a story about a White House intern when Drudge reported it in January 1998. The page is still unscripted HTML, and its layout has hardly changed since 1997.
In 1997: The website began, as a companion to Drudge's email newsletter, which cost $10 a year.
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 1997 page.
Put it on your site
Run Drudge Report, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1997. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1997, then plays a short scene. Want Drudge Report in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
