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dub3's pixel tribute to Google Scholar in 2009: a Modern-era web page
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2009 page

dub3 card · scholar.google.com

Google Scholar (2009)

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Cost
3 RAM
Power
5
Rarity
Epic
Family
Search
Era
Modern (2009 on)

What it does

On reveal: If you already have another Search card here, +3 Power to this card.

On reveal happens once, when the card flips.

It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 5 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 2009

A free search engine for scholarly writing: journal articles, books, theses, preprints, court opinions and patents.

Google engineers Alex Verstak and Anurag Acharya started it. Its author profiles included Einstein and Feynman, and for several years Isaac Newton's said he was a professor at MIT.

Modern era, 2009 on. Phones, feeds and cookie banners. The web got fast, flat and very sure about notifications.

The Establishment: Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2009 page.

Put it on your site

Run Google Scholar, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:

Google Scholar is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2009, then plays a short scene. Want Google Scholar in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.

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