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dub3's pixel tribute to priceline.com in 1998: a Boom-era travel site
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1998 page

dub3 card · www.priceline.com

priceline.com (1998)

Best viewed in Netscape 4.

Cost
2 RAM
Power
4
Rarity
Common
Family
Commerce
Era
Boom (1995 to 1998)
Collection
The Long Tail

What it does

No ability.

No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.

It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 4 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.

Commerce cards grow every round and make your opponent pay more to play.

The site, in 1998

An online travel agency for discounted flights, hotels and other trips, based in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Its Name Your Own Price feature let customers bid for flights and hotels, ending for flights in 2016 and for hotels in 2020. It went online in April 1998 and now belongs to Booking Holdings, which also owns Kayak.com and Booking.com.

Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.

The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1998 page.

Put it on your site

Run priceline.com, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1998. Paste this into your page:

priceline.com is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1998, then plays a short scene. Want priceline.com in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.