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dub3's pixel tribute to Mail.ru in 1998: a Boom-era web portal
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1998 page

dub3 card · мэйл.рф

Mail.ru (1998)

10 results per page, 11 pages of hope.

Cost
2 RAM
Power
1
Rarity
Rare
Family
Search
Era
Boom (1995 to 1998)
Collection
The Long Tail

What it does

Ongoing: +2 Power to this card for each card you have here, up to +4.

Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.

It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 1 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.

Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.

The site, in 1998

A Russian email service and web portal, from which the company later renamed VK grew.

By 2000 the Mail.ru business held the top spot in Russia. In 2014 the group's sites reached about 86% of Russian internet users each month, and in 2021 it renamed itself VK, after VKontakte.

In 1998: The business behind it began under Port.ru, a company founded this year as a spin-off from DataArt.

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 1998 page.

Put it on your site

Run Mail.ru, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1998. Paste this into your page:

Mail.ru is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1998, then plays a short scene. Want Mail.ru 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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