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LinkExchange (1996)
Show our banners on your page and your banner shows up on everyone else's.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 4
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Dead Links
What it does
On reveal: +1 RAM next round.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
RAM is what you spend to play cards.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 4 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Tech cards bend the rules: more RAM, cheaper cards and patches that weaken the other side.
The site, in 1996
A free banner-swap network: member sites showed LinkExchange banners and, in return, got their own banners shown across other members' pages.
Tony Hsieh and Sanjay Madan, both 23, launched it in March 1996, and Microsoft bought it for $265 million in November 1998. Hsieh went on to run the online shoe shop Zappos.
In 1996: Launched in March; within 90 days it had over 20,000 member pages and had shown banners over 10 million times.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Dead Links: Gone, but not forgotten. Mostly forgotten.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1996 page.
Put it on your site
Run LinkExchange, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1996. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1996, then plays a short scene. Want LinkExchange in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
