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One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age (2013)
A rescued GeoCities home page every twenty minutes, shown in a browser of its day.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Modern (2009 on)
- Collection
- Under Construction
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 1 RAM to play and brings 1 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 2013
Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied's Tumblr that posts a screenshot of a rescued GeoCities home page every twenty minutes, framed in a period browser.
It draws on the nearly one-terabyte copy of GeoCities that Archive Team saved before Yahoo closed it in 2009, loading each page on period software in an emulator. Rhizome holds the work in its collection.
In 2013: Started in February, posting automatically around the clock. A year later Espenschied restored its three most-liked pages.
Modern era, 2009 on. Phones, feeds and cookie banners. The web got fast, flat and very sure about notifications.
Under Construction: Homepages, fan shrines and the GIFs that decorated them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2013 page.
Put it on your site
Run One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age, 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 2013, then plays a short scene. Want One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
