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dub3's pixel tribute to hotel.de in 2001: a Dot-com-era travel site
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2001 page

dub3 card · www.hotel.de

hotel.de (2001)

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

What it does

Each round end: +1 Power to this card.

Each round end fires as every round finishes.

It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 3 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.

Commerce cards grow every round and make your opponent pay more to play.

The site, in 2001

A German hotel booking portal, founded in 2001 and run from Nuremberg until 2017, now part of the HRS Group.

Its address was just the word hotel under Germany's .de. It took over the site of Atrada, a booking service running since 1999, and HRS bought a majority stake in 2011. It listed 210,000 hotels by 2012.

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.

Put it on your site

Run hotel.de, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 2001. Paste this into your page:

hotel.de is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2001, then plays a short scene. Want hotel.de in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.