dub3 card · www.teleportacia.org/war
My Boyfriend Came Back From the War (1996)
Click a picture and the frame splits in two. Keep clicking until the story falls apart.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Net Art
What it does
On reveal: If an enemy card was revealed here earlier this round, +2 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 8 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Creators cards are strongest on their own, and some only get going late.
The site, in 1996
Olia Lialina's net artwork: a black-and-white story of a couple reunited after a war, told in browser frames that split smaller with every click.
Lialina built it in 1996 from HTML frames, then a new browser feature, and it is counted among the founding works of net.art. Artists including JODI have remixed it since 1998, and Rhizome put it in its Net Art Anthology in 2016.
In 1996: Online this year as what Lialina called a netfilm, with grainy GIFs and intertitles that recall silent cinema.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Net Art: Websites that are artworks, by people who saw the browser as a canvas.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1996 page.
Put it on your site
Run My Boyfriend Came Back From the War, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1996. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1996, then plays a short scene. Want My Boyfriend Came Back From the War in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
