dub3 card · pubweb.parc.xerox.com
PARC Map Viewer (1993)
Ask for any patch of the world and it draws you a map. In 1993.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 5
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Pioneer (up to 1994)
- Collection
- Dead Links
What it does
On reveal: -3 Power to the strongest enemy card here.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 5 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Tech cards bend the rules: more RAM, cheaper cards and patches that weaken the other side.
The site, in 1993
An experimental web server at Xerox PARC that drew a map of any part of the world on request and sent it back as an inline image.
Steve Putz announced it on 21 June 1993. A Perl script read map requests written into the URL and drew a fresh map each time: an early page that did work instead of serving a stored file, and a forerunner of MapQuest and Google Maps.
In 1993: Announced on the www-talk mailing list on 21 June as the only service on PARC's experimental PubWeb server.
Pioneer era, up to 1994. Grey pages, blue links and a browser called Mosaic. Images were optional. So was colour.
Dead Links: Gone, but not forgotten. Mostly forgotten.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1993 page.
Put it on your site
Run PARC Map Viewer, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1993. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1993, then plays a short scene. Want PARC Map Viewer in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
