dub3 card · www.popmatters.com
PopMatters (2004)
Still in beta.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 0
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +3 Power to the next card you play.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 0 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Media cards broadcast Power to your other lanes.
The site, in 2004
An online magazine of pop culture criticism, with reviews, interviews and essays on music, film, television, books and games.
Sarah Zupko founded it in late 1999 as a sister to her academic site PopCultures. It grew from weekly to five days a week and, from 2006, wrote syndicated newspaper columns for McClatchy-Tribune.
In 2004: Five years in; it passed a million readers a month in the autumn of 2005.
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 2004 page.
Put it on your site
Run PopMatters, 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 2004, then plays a short scene. Want PopMatters in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
