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dub3's pixel tribute to Rhizome in 1998: a Boom-era digital library
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1998 page

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Rhizome (1998)

Net art community and archive.

Cost
4 RAM
Power
8
Rarity
Rare
Family
Search
Era
Boom (1995 to 1998)
Collection
Net Art

What it does

On reveal: Draw 1 card.

On reveal happens once, when the card flips.

It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 8 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.

Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.

The site, in 1998

A net art community and archive, begun as an email list and now affiliated with the New Museum in New York.

The artist Mark Tribe started it as an email list while living in Berlin in 1996. Its ArtBase archive, begun in 1999, holds more than 2,000 works of net art and other new media art.

In 1998: Turned from a business into a nonprofit, and moved to the .org domain.

Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.

Net Art: Websites that are artworks, by people who saw the browser as a canvas.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1998 page.

Put it on your site

Run Rhizome, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1998. Paste this into your page:

Rhizome is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1998, then plays a short scene. Want Rhizome in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.

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