dub3 card · zapatopi.net/treeoctopus
Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (2003)
Help save a rare octopus that lives in the treetops of Washington's forests.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Institutions
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Weird Web
What it does
No ability.
No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 6 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Institutions cards protect your side, and come back strong when you're losing.
The site, in 2003
A hoax conservation page by Lyle Zapato about an endangered octopus that supposedly lives in the trees of the Olympic National Forest.
Created in 1998, it is used in school lessons on judging online sources. In a 2007 study, 27 of 53 13-year-olds rated it very reliable, and in 2018 the Library of Congress picked it for its first web culture collection.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Weird Web: One page, one joke, no reason. The internet at its best.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2003 page.
Put it on your site
Run Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, 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 Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
