dub3 card · www.geocities.com
GeoCities (1996)
The neighborhoods of the web. GIFs everywhere.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 4
- Rarity
- Epic
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Under Construction
What it does
Ongoing: From round 5, +3 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 4 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 1996
Free home pages for anyone, each one filed under a themed "city" such as Hollywood or SiliconValley.
It signed up its millionth member in 1997 and was among the busiest sites on the web when Yahoo paid $3.57 billion for it in 1999. Yahoo closed the US service in 2009; archivists saved about 900 GB of it.
In 1996: It had 29 themed neighbourhoods by now, and each home page got a numbered street address inside one.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Under Construction: Homepages, fan shrines and the GIFs that decorated them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1996 page.
Put it on your site
Run GeoCities, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1996. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1996, then plays a short scene. Want GeoCities in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
