dub3 card · www.overheardinnewyork.com
Overheard in New York (2003)
Strangers' conversations, overheard on the subway and the street, posted for all.
- Cost
- 6 RAM
- Power
- 12
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- Meme Machine
What it does
On reveal: +1 Power to your other cards here.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 6 RAM to play and brings 12 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 2003
A humour blog of snatches of strangers' conversation overheard around New York City, sent in by readers and labelled with tags like 'tourist'.
Started around 2003 by S. Morgan Friedman with founding editor Michael Malice, it had about 4 million page views a month by 2006 and made the 'overheard' format popular, leading to books, sister sites and copies in many cities.
In 2003: Friedman started it after overhearing a man on his phone grumble that every conversation circles back to the speaker.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
Meme Machine: Where the jokes everyone repeated got started.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2003 page.
Put it on your site
Run Overheard in New York, 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 2003, then plays a short scene. Want Overheard in New York in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
