dub3 card · maps.google.com
Google Maps (2005)
Grab the map and drag it: the whole world slides along, no page reload.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- Megacorps
What it does
Ongoing: +2 Power to your other Web 2.0 cards here.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
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.
Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.
The site, in 2005
Google's web map service, grown from Where 2 Technologies' software, whose Ajax map could be dragged around without reloading the page.
Announced on 8 February 2005, it turned a desktop program by brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen into a web app. Mashups such as HousingMaps reverse-engineered it, so Google released an official Maps API that June.
In 2005: Launched in February; the Maps API opened in June, and in September it updated its satellite images of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
Megacorps: The giants. You've used most of them today.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2005 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2005, then plays a short scene. Want Google Maps in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
