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Hotmail (2002)
Free web-based email that Microsoft bought for $400M.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: -2 Power to the strongest enemy card here.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 4 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Tech cards bend the rules: more RAM, cheaper cards and patches that weaken the other side.
The site, in 2002
Free web-based email, reachable from any browser, founded in 1995 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith.
It was one of the first webmail services. It reported 8.5 million subscribers by December 1997, when Microsoft bought it for a reported $400 million. It was fully replaced by Outlook in May 2013.
In 2002: Still partly on UNIX: only the front end had moved to Windows 2000.
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 2002 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2002, then plays a short scene. Want Hotmail in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
