dub3 card · lang-8.com
Lang-8 (2006)
First post!
- 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 2006
A language exchange site run from Tokyo by Lang-8 Inc., made for people learning languages.
By 2017 it had over 750,000 registered users in more than 190 countries, using 90 languages. It closed on 29 February 2024 and sent its users to HiNative, another of its services.
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 2006 page.
Put it on your site
Run Lang-8, 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 2006, then plays a short scene. Want Lang-8 in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
