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dub3's pixel tribute to seattlepi.com in 2009: a Modern-era news site
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2009 page

dub3 card · www.seattlepi.com

seattlepi.com (2009)

A 146-year-old daily stops the presses and carries on as a website.

Cost
2 RAM
Power
4
Rarity
Common
Family
Media
Era
Modern (2009 on)
Collection
The Long Tail

What it does

On reveal: If an enemy card was revealed here earlier this round, +2 Power to this card.

On reveal happens once, when the card flips.

It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 4 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 2009

The website of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a daily founded in 1863 that became an online-only newspaper in 2009.

Hearst put the money-losing paper up for sale in January 2009. With no buyer, it printed its last edition on 17 March and went on as an online-only daily with a much smaller staff. Its rooftop neon globe still appears on the site.

Modern era, 2009 on. Phones, feeds and cookie banners. The web got fast, flat and very sure about notifications.

The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2009 page.

Put it on your site

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

seattlepi.com is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2009, then plays a short scene. Want seattlepi.com in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.