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JumpStation (1993)
Type a word, get a list of links. The first web search to work that way.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Pioneer (up to 1994)
- Collection
- Dead Links
What it does
On reveal: If an enemy card was revealed here earlier this round, +2 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 8 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.
The site, in 1993
A search engine at the University of Stirling that used a robot to build its index and listed matching pages for keywords typed into a form.
Jonathon Fletcher's engine began indexing on 12 December 1993, the first web search engine to behave and look the way modern ones do. It held 275,000 entries from 1,500 servers when he left in late 1994 without finding backers.
In 1993: Started indexing on 12 December and was announced on NCSA's What's New page on 21 December.
Pioneer era, up to 1994. Grey pages, blue links and a browser called Mosaic. Images were optional. So was colour.
Dead Links: Gone, but not forgotten. Mostly forgotten.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1993 page.
Put it on your site
Run JumpStation, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1993. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1993, then plays a short scene. Want JumpStation in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
