dub3 card · photobucket.com
Photobucket (2008)
Made with love and Notepad.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 3
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: If played in round 5 or later, +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 3 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 2008
A site for uploading, storing and sharing photos and videos, widely used to host pictures shown on forums, blogs and auction listings.
It once held over 10 billion images for 100 million members, and at its peak handled 2% of American internet traffic. In June 2017 it began charging $399 a year to embed images on other sites, a highly controversial change.
In 2008: Owned by Fox Interactive Media, which had bought it in 2007. Fox's parent company sold it on in December 2009.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2008 page.
Put it on your site
Run Photobucket, 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 2008, then plays a short scene. Want Photobucket in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
