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Mirsky's Worst of the Web (1995)
Three times a week, three awful websites, and one line each to finish them off.
- Cost
- 6 RAM
- Power
- 9
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Weird Web
What it does
On reveal: +1 Power to your cards in other lanes.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 6 RAM to play and brings 9 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
A pick of the worst sites on the web three days a week, each linked with a single acid one-line review by former Harvard Lampoon writer David Mirsky.
Started in January 1995 as a riposte to Glenn Davis's Cool Site of the Day, it was the first well-trafficked site to treat bad web pages as entertainment. Mirsky stopped on 1 November 1996, frustrated that it never led to paid work.
In 1995: Launched in January, with about three new terrible sites picked three days a week.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
The Weird Web: One page, one joke, no reason. The internet at its best.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1995 page.
Put it on your site
Run Mirsky's Worst of the Web, 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 Mirsky's Worst of the Web in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
