dub3 card · www.proboards.com
ProBoards (2000)
A free forum for anyone who asks. By 2014 it had made 3.5 million of them.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +2 Power to your other cards here.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 6 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.
The site, in 2000
A free hosted message-board service: anyone could create a forum on any subject and run it from ProBoards' servers.
Patrick Clinger opened it on 1 January 2000 with software he wrote himself. By 2008 its forums drew over 600 million page views a month, and by 2014 it had been used to create 3.5 million forums.
In 2000: Opened for business on 1 January, running Clinger's own forum software; it switched to YaBB late in 2001.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2000 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2000, then plays a short scene. Want ProBoards in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
