dub3 card · www.okayplayer.com
Okayplayer (1999)
Artists' home pages and a message board where the fans talk back.
- Cost
- 6 RAM
- Power
- 10
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +2 Power to your other cards here.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 6 RAM to play and brings 10 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 1999
A hip-hop and alternative music community where artists kept official pages and fans, known as okayplayers, met on its busy message board.
The Roots' drummer Questlove and writer Angela Nissel took it online in 1999. It was one of the first places fans could talk directly with artists, and Phonte and Nicolay met there and made an album together.
In 1999: Went online this year, first to chronicle The Roots' day-to-day life, before growing into a hub for music, politics and the arts.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1999 page.
Put it on your site
Run Okayplayer, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1999, then plays a short scene. Want Okayplayer in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
