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dub3's pixel tribute to HotelsCombined in 2005: a Web 2.0-era travel site
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2005 page

dub3 card · www.hotelscombined.com

HotelsCombined (2005)

Ships in 4 to 6 weeks.

Cost
3 RAM
Power
3
Rarity
Common
Family
Commerce
Era
Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
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 2005

A hotel metasearch engine that lists prices from many travel sites and hotel chains side by side, founded in Sydney.

Started in 2005 in Sydney, Australia, it works across dozens of languages and currencies. It later became a unit of Booking Holdings.

Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.

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

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2005 page.

Put it on your site

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

HotelsCombined is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2005, then plays a short scene. Want HotelsCombined in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.