dub3 card · www.etoys.com
eToys.com (1999)
Online toy store that was worth more than Toys R Us. Briefly.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 4
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Commerce
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- 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.
Commerce cards grow every round and make your opponent pay more to play.
The site, in 1999
An online toy shop, set up as a startup of the same name on 3 November 1997.
After it floated on the stock market on 4 January 1999, its value shot up, for a short while above Toys R Us, and it came to stand for the dot-com bubble. It went bankrupt on 1 April 2001. Toys R Us has owned the domain since 2009.
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 eToys.com, 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 eToys.com in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
