dub3 card · www.netmarket.com
NetMarket (1994)
One Sting CD, one encrypted card number, one sale. A first for online shopping.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 2
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Commerce
- Era
- Pioneer (up to 1994)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: Enemy cards cost 1 more to play here.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 2 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 1994
An early online shop run from a house in Nashua, New Hampshire, selling CDs and books and later a whole mall's range of goods.
On 11 August 1994 it sold Sting's Ten Summoner's Tales to a buyer in Philadelphia whose card details were protected by PGP encryption built into the browser; the New York Times called it apparently the first such retail sale on the internet.
In 1994: Founded by Dan Kohn, Roger Lee, Guy Haskin and Eiji Hirai; made its landmark encrypted sale on 11 August.
Pioneer era, up to 1994. Grey pages, blue links and a browser called Mosaic. Images were optional. So was colour.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1994 page.
Put it on your site
Run NetMarket, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1994. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1994, then plays a short scene. Want NetMarket in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
