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dub3's pixel tribute to LibraryThing in 2010: a Modern-era social network
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2010 page

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LibraryThing (2010)

Everyone was here. Nobody remembers why.

Cost
1 RAM
Power
1
Rarity
Rare
Family
Social
Era
Modern (2009 on)
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 2010

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.

Modern era, 2009 on. Phones, feeds and cookie banners. The web got fast, flat and very sure about notifications.

The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2010 page.

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2010, 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.

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