dub3 card · www.salon.com
Salon.com (1998)
Longform journalism's first serious home on the web.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 0
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +3 Power to the next card you play.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 0 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Media cards broadcast Power to your other lanes.
The site, in 1998
A news and opinion site born in San Francisco, with articles on US politics, culture and current events from a liberal and progressive view.
Founded by the former Examiner editor David Talbot after a newspaper strike, it launched at salon1999.com. Time named it one of the best web sites of 1996, and it floated on NASDAQ in 1999.
In 1998: Still private, a year before it bought the online community The WELL and listed on NASDAQ in June 1999.
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.
Put it on your site
Run Salon.com, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1998. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1998, then plays a short scene. Want Salon.com in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
