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NCSA What's New (1993)
Every new website in the world, announced here. About one a day.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Pioneer (up to 1994)
- Collection
- Dead Links
What it does
On reveal: If you already have another Tech card here, +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 8 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Tech cards bend the rules: more RAM, cheaper cards and patches that weaken the other side.
The site, in 1993
NCSA's home for its Mosaic browser, whose 'What's New' page announced new websites as they appeared and served as an early directory of the web.
Mosaic, first released in January 1993, was the first browser to show pictures inline with text and drove the web's early growth. JumpStation was announced on What's New in December 1993, and by late 1994 NCSA wrote the page jointly with GNN.
In 1993: Mosaic 1.0 came out on 21 April; What's New was adding about one new link a day as the web grew.
Pioneer era, up to 1994. Grey pages, blue links and a browser called Mosaic. Images were optional. So was colour.
Dead Links: Gone, but not forgotten. Mostly forgotten.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1993 page.
Put it on your site
Run NCSA What's New, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1993. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1993, then plays a short scene. Want NCSA What's New in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
