dub3 card · librarything.com
LibraryThing (2005)
First post!
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
When you play a card here: +1 Power to this card.
When you play a card here fires each time you add another card to that lane.
It costs 1 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 2005
A social cataloguing site for storing and sharing book catalogues, with data drawn from Amazon and more than 2,000 libraries.
Tim Spalding built it in Portland, Maine. AbeBooks bought a 40 per cent stake in 2006. It was a freemium service until it went free to all on 8 March 2020, promising registered users no adverts.
In 2005: Went live on 29 August. The first 200 books were free; people with bigger libraries paid.
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 2005 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2005, then plays a short scene. Want LibraryThing in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
