dub3 card · www.mg.co.za
Mail & Guardian Online (1995)
Africa's first online newspaper, which started out as stories sent by email.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 10
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Establishment
What it does
No ability.
No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.
It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 10 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Media cards broadcast Power to your other lanes.
The site, in 1995
The online edition of South Africa's Mail & Guardian weekly, which began by emailing stories to readers abroad before print subscribers got them.
The paper began in 1985 as the Weekly Mail and was banned in 1988 for criticising apartheid. Its online edition, from 1994, was Africa's first internet news publication, and grew from a weekly mirror of the paper into daily news.
In 1995: The Electronic Mail & Guardian (eM&G), which the paper calls South Africa's first news website, launched this year.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
The Establishment: Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1995 page.
Put it on your site
Run Mail & Guardian Online, 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 Mail & Guardian Online in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
