dub3 card · www.freerepublic.com/home.htm
Free Republic (1997)
Everyone was here. Nobody remembers why.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 5
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +1 Power to your other cards here.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 5 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.
The site, in 1997
A moderated forum and chat site for self-described American conservatives, where members post news articles and comment on them.
Jim Robinson started it in September 1996 and it opened to the public in February 1997. It runs on donations alone, through quarterly pledge drives called Freepathons. Its members questioned the CBS Killian memos on the night they aired in 2004.
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 Free Republic, 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 Free Republic in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
