dub3 card · corp.rakuten.co.jp
Rakuten Group, Inc. (2002)
First post!
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- 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 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 2002
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 2002: Introduced fixed monthly fees plus commission for merchants in April, and the Super Point loyalty scheme in November.
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 2002 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 2002. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2002, 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.
