dub3 card · www.mapquest.com
MapQuest (1996)
Print your directions. All 47 pages of them.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Commerce
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: The first card you play next round costs 1 less.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
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.
Commerce cards grow every round and make your opponent pay more to play.
The site, in 1996
A web mapping service that gave you maps and driving directions to print out before a trip.
It launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. It went public in February 1999 and was sold to AOL in a $1.1 billion deal that closed in 2000. It lost ground to Google Maps in the mid-2000s.
In 1996: The launch year. Its first services were an Interactive Atlas for maps and TripQuest for driving directions.
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 1996 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1996, then plays a short scene. Want MapQuest in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
