dub3 card · identi.ca
identi.ca (2008)
Be kind, rewind your forum.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +2 Power to your cards in other lanes.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 1 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.
The site, in 2008
An open-source microblogging service run by developer Evan Prodromou, built as a free-software alternative to Twitter.
It had features Twitter lacked, such as XMPP support and personal tag clouds, and could feed your notices into a Twitter account. It later moved to new software, pump.io, which dropped the 140-character limit.
In 2008: Launched publicly on 2 July, with over 8,000 sign-ups in its first day. It reached its millionth notice on 4 November.
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 2008 page.
Put it on your site
Run identi.ca, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2008, then plays a short scene. Want identi.ca in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
