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Gadu-Gadu (2000)
Poland's chit-chat: a number for every user, and a ping the whole country knew.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: If you already have another Social card here, +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 8 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 2000
Poland's most popular instant messenger, whose name means 'chit-chat'; like ICQ, it gave every user a number, and its website was where you downloaded it.
Łukasz Foltyn built it for the Polish market. At its peak it had over 15 million accounts and carried up to 300 million messages a day, its emoticons became cult, and its alert sound, borrowed from a Windows 98 desktop theme, was widely known.
In 2000: Launched on 15 August; the company says 10,000 people registered on the first day.
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 2000 page.
Put it on your site
Run Gadu-Gadu, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 2000. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2000, then plays a short scene. Want Gadu-Gadu in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
