dub3 card · www.orbitz.com
Orbitz (2001)
Flight search across the airlines, on a site the airlines built themselves.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 5
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Commerce
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- 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 3 RAM to play and brings 5 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 2001
A Chicago-based travel search and booking site for flights, hotels and cars, set up by major US airlines.
Its airline owners controlled 75% of US air travel, so it launched in June 2001 under antitrust scrutiny; Nielsen called it the biggest e-commerce launch to that date. Its fares were found by ITA Software's QPX engine, written in Lisp.
In 2001: Began beta testing in February and launched officially in June; Southwest Airlines sued it in May.
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 2001 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2001, then plays a short scene. Want Orbitz in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
