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MacTutor History of Mathematics archive (1995)
Now with 40% more bandwidth.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 3
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
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 2 RAM to play and brings 3 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 1995
A history of mathematics site of biographies and topics, kept by John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson at the University of St Andrews.
It grew out of their HyperCard database, which won a European Academic Software award in 1994. It now has biographies of more than 3,200 mathematicians and scientists, and the pair won the London Mathematical Society's Hirst Prize in 2015.
In 1995: Its first full year online, after the authors founded the site in 1994.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1995 page.
Put it on your site
Run MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1995. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1995, then plays a short scene. Want MacTutor History of Mathematics archive in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
