dub3 card · www.olga.net
OLGA (1996)
Thousands of fan-typed guitar tabs, in plain text, free to anyone with a guitar.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 3
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Dead Links
What it does
Each round end: If this is your only card here, +1 Power to this card.
Each round end fires as every round finishes.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 3 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Creators cards are strongest on their own, and some only get going late.
The site, in 1996
The On-line Guitar Archive, the first internet library of plain-text guitar and bass tabs and chord charts, typed up by fans and shared for free.
UNLV student James Bender began collecting tabs from newsgroups around 1992. It held 22,000 files by 1997 and 34,000 by 2006, when music publishers' lawyers made it take them all down.
In 1996: EMI Publishing complained to UNLV this year, and the university removed the archive from its server.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Dead Links: Gone, but not forgotten. Mostly forgotten.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1996 page.
Put it on your site
Run OLGA, 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 OLGA in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
