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Gaia Online (2003)
Anime avatars and forum gold economies.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Epic
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- Cult Classics
What it does
On reveal: +1 Power to your cards in other lanes.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 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 2003
An anime-themed social site and forum where each member gets a customisable avatar and shops for its clothes with site money.
In 2007 more than a million posts were made a day, and 7 million different people visited each month. Members, called Gaians, can dress an avatar as a human, vampire, elf or zombie.
In 2003: Founded on 18 February as go-gaia by Derek Liu, Long Vo and Josh Gainsbrugh, starting out as an anime link list.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
Cult Classics: Small, strange and loved to bits by the people who found them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2003 page.
Put it on your site
Run Gaia Online, 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 2003, then plays a short scene. Want Gaia Online in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
