dub3 card · chessclub.com
Internet Chess Club (1995)
Best viewed in Netscape 4.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 3
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +1 RAM next round.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
RAM is what you spend to play cards.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 3 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 1995
A subscription chess server where people played and talked about chess and chess variants over the internet.
In 2005 it had over 30,000 subscribing members, making it the largest pay-to-play chess server.
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 1995 page.
Put it on your site
Run Internet Chess Club, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1995. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1995, then plays a short scene. Want Internet Chess Club in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
