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Every Icon (1997)
A 32 by 32 grid counting through every possible black-and-white picture. Please wait.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Net Art
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 1997
John F. Simon Jr.'s Java applet that works through every possible image on a grid of 32 by 32 black and white squares, one after another.
Started on 14 January 1997, it needed about 16 months just to run through the first row of 32 squares; the whole grid would take vastly longer than the age of the universe. The Whitney Museum's artport presents it.
In 1997: Launched on 14 January, counting at about 100 images a second.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Net Art: Websites that are artworks, by people who saw the browser as a canvas.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1997 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1997, then plays a short scene. Want Every Icon in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
