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Hatena (2001)
Ask a question, and real people go and search the web for your answer.
- Cost
- 6 RAM
- Power
- 12
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
Ongoing: If this is your only card here, +4 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 6 RAM to play and brings 12 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 2001
A Kyoto web company whose services included a human-powered question-and-answer search, Hatena Diary blogs and Hatena Bookmark, Japan's top social bookmarking site.
Junya Kondo founded it in 2001. Hatena Diary (2003) and Hatena Bookmark (2005) were mainstays of the Japanese web, and the company went on to build Flipnote Hatena and work on Nintendo's Miiverse.
In 2001: Opened on 15 July as a 'human-powered search' site where people answered each other's questions; the company was set up in Kyoto four days later.
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 2001 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2001, then plays a short scene. Want Hatena in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
