dub3 card · freenode.net
freenode (1995)
Everyone was here. Nobody remembers why.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
When you play a card here: +1 Power to this card.
When you play a card here fires each time you add another card to that lane.
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.
Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.
The site, in 1995
An IRC chat network run by volunteers, where free software and open source projects kept their support and discussion channels.
It grew to be the largest network for the free software community. In May 2021 a disputed change of control led at least 14 volunteer staff to resign, and by August over a thousand projects had moved away.
In 1995: By now it had grown from a four-person Linux help channel into a network of its own, irc.linpeople.org.
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 1995 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1995, then plays a short scene. Want freenode in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
