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dub3's pixel tribute to Hao123 in 1999: a Dot-com-era web portal
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1999 page

dub3 card · www.hao123.com

Hao123 (1999)

Indexed before you were looking.

Cost
2 RAM
Power
3
Rarity
Common
Family
Search
Era
Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
Collection
The Long Tail

What it does

On reveal: If played in round 5 or later, +3 Power to this card.

On reveal happens once, when the card flips.

It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 3 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 1999

A Chinese web directory of links to popular sites, run by Baidu, with versions for Brazil in Portuguese and for Thailand in Thai.

Li Xingping started it in 1999 as a curated list of websites, and Baidu bought it in 2004. Foreign-language versions such as the Thai one began launching from September 2011.

Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.

The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1999 page.

Put it on your site

Run Hao123, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:

Hao123 is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1999, then plays a short scene. Want Hao123 in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.