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dub3's pixel tribute to Rare Book Room in 2006: a Web 2.0-era digital library
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2006 page

dub3 card · www.rarebookroom.org

Rare Book Room (2006)

Last updated: see below.

Cost
3 RAM
Power
4
Rarity
Common
Family
Institutions
Era
Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)

What it does

Arrives with a shield. Ongoing: While this card keeps its shield, +2 Power to this card.

Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.

It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 4 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.

Institutions cards protect your side, and come back strong when you're losing.

The site, in 2006

An educational website that makes digitally scanned rare books freely available to the public.

It opened in 2006 with scans from Octavo, a California firm. By 2007 it held over 400 books, among them a Gutenberg Bible, the Shakespeare First Folio and Magna Carta.

Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.

The Establishment: Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2006 page.

Put it on your site

Run Rare Book Room, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:

Rare Book Room is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2006, then plays a short scene. Want Rare Book Room in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.