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dub3's pixel tribute to RuneScape in 2006: a Web 2.0-era web page
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2006 page

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RuneScape (2006)

The browser MMO that consumed millions of childhoods.

Cost
3 RAM
Power
6
Rarity
Epic
Family
Games
Era
Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
Collection
Cult Classics

What it does

Ongoing: At a Games location, +2 Power to this card.

Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.

It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 6 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.

Games cards roll the dice. Sometimes the dice roll you.

The site, in 2006

A fantasy online role-playing game played in the browser, set in the medieval world of Gielinor and made by Andrew Gower and his brother Paul.

It began in 2001 on a server in the Gower family home in Nottingham. Guinness World Records lists it as the MMO with the most users, and over 300 million accounts have been made across the franchise.

In 2006: Jagex upgraded the engine in May and banned nearly 5,000 accounts on the older RuneScape Classic for cheating.

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

Cult Classics: Small, strange and loved to bits by the people who found them.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2006 page.

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

Other editions of RuneScape