dub3 card · www.hotbot.com
HotBot (1997)
Wired Magazine's search engine with the coolest name.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: Draw 1 card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 8 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 1997
A colourful web search engine from Wired magazine's online arm, with results supplied by Inktomi.
Its colourful design and phrase searching won praise, and it was the 19th most visited website in 1998. Lycos bought it that October and sold the domain in 2016 for $155,000.
In 1997: In March, Inktomi's Smart Crawl technology joined in, letting it crawl 10 million pages a week.
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 1997 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1997, then plays a short scene. Want HotBot in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
