dub3 card · corp.rakuten.co.jp
Rakuten Group, Inc. (1997)
Be kind, rewind your forum.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 7
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +1 Power to your other cards here.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 7 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 1997
The corporate site of Rakuten, the Tokyo-based Japanese technology group behind the Rakuten Ichiba online shopping marketplace.
Hiroshi Mikitani founded it in 1997 with a mall where merchants could customise their own storefronts for a smaller fee than bigger rivals charged. Rakuten means 'optimism' in Japanese.
In 1997: Rakuten Ichiba opened on 1 May 1997 with six employees and 13 merchants.
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 1997 page.
Put it on your site
Run Rakuten Group, Inc., or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1997. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1997, then plays a short scene. Want Rakuten Group, Inc. in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
