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Netscape Navigator (1996)
The browser that brought the web to the masses.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 0
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +3 Power to a random card in your hand.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 0 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.
The site, in 1996
The web browser most people used in the 1990s, made by Netscape Communications, which Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark started.
It showed pages while they downloaded, which made dial-up bearable. It added cookies, frames and JavaScript. Internet Explorer overtook it, and by about 2003 its users had almost gone.
In 1996: The market leader. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.0, released this year, let it catch up.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1996 page.
Put it on your site
Run Netscape Navigator, 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 Netscape Navigator in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
