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Gracenote (1998)
Tune in. Log on. Wait a bit.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 2
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +3 Power to the next card you play.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 2 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Media cards broadcast Power to your other lanes.
The site, in 1998
A database that tells music software the album and track names on an audio CD, once known as CDDB, the Compact Disc Data Base.
When you put a disc in your computer, it looked up the track titles here. It grew into a supplier of music, video and sports data, owned by Sony from 2008 to 2014 and by Nielsen since 2017.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1998 page.
Put it on your site
Run Gracenote, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1998. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1998, then plays a short scene. Want Gracenote in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
