dub3 card · www.economist.com
Economist.com (1994)
An 1843 weekly gets a website in 1994, set up for $120.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 3
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Pioneer (up to 1994)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: If played in round 5 or later, +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 3 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 1994
The website of The Economist, the London weekly of news, economics and politics whose articles famously carry no bylines.
Correspondent Kenneth Cukier paid $120 to set up its first website in early 1994, when the paper was already 151 years old. It is still live at economist.com.
In 1994: Went up early in the year with a portal of early internet search tools such as Archie, Gopher, Veronica and WAIS.
Pioneer era, up to 1994. Grey pages, blue links and a browser called Mosaic. Images were optional. So was colour.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1994 page.
Put it on your site
Run Economist.com, 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 Economist.com in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
