dub3 card · www.random.org
random.org (1998)
Works on my machine.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +1 RAM next round.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
RAM is what you spend to play cards.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 1 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Tech cards bend the rules: more RAM, cheaper cards and patches that weaken the other side.
The site, in 1998
A website that makes random numbers from atmospheric noise, with free tools for flipping coins, rolling dice and shuffling cards.
Mads Haahr, a computer science professor at Trinity College Dublin, created it in 1998. Its numbers come from radios tuned between stations, not from the formulae that pseudo-random generators use.
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.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1998, then plays a short scene. Want random.org in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
