dub3 card · www.sfgate.com
SFGate (1994)
Bay Area news on the web, born in the wake of a newspaper strike.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 3
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Pioneer (up to 1994)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: If played in round 5 or later, +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 3 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 1994
For years the San Francisco Chronicle's website, covering Bay Area news, food, culture and sport; it later split off with its own newsroom.
It launched on 3 November 1994 as The Gate, after an eleven-day newspaper strike, and took the name SFGate in 1998. In 2010 Mark Fiore's cartoons for it won the first Pulitzer Prize given to work that had not appeared in print.
In 1994: Opened on 3 November under the name The Gate; it became SFGate four years later.
Pioneer era, up to 1994. Grey pages, blue links and a browser called Mosaic. Images were optional. So was colour.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1994 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1994, then plays a short scene. Want SFGate in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
