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IRC-Galleria (2003)
Faces for the nicknames: a Finnish photo gallery built for IRC chatters.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +2 Power to your other cards here.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 6 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 2003
A Finnish photo gallery for IRC users that grew into a social network, where each member's main picture had to show their face.
By 2009 it had over 500,000 users and 9 million pictures, mostly from 13- to 22-year-olds. Habbo's maker Sulake bought it in 2007, and from 2008 Helsinki police officers kept accounts there to talk openly with young people.
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 2003 page.
Put it on your site
Run IRC-Galleria, 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 2003, then plays a short scene. Want IRC-Galleria in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
