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dub3's pixel tribute to Nairaland in 2005: a Web 2.0-era forum
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2005 page

dub3 card · www.nairaland.com

Nairaland (2005)

Be kind, rewind your forum.

Cost
3 RAM
Power
6
Rarity
Common
Family
Social
Era
Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
Collection
The Long Tail

What it does

No ability.

No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.

It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 6 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.

Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.

The site, in 2005

A Nigerian discussion forum founded by the entrepreneur Seun Osewa, aimed mainly at people living in Nigeria.

Osewa started it in 2005, and by 2020 it had over 2.5 million members. In June 2014 a hacking attempt took it offline for three days and wiped five months of posts.

Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.

The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2005 page.

Put it on your site

Run Nairaland, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:

Nairaland is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2005, then plays a short scene. Want Nairaland in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.