dub3 card · www.shazam.com
Shazam (2002)
Tune in. Log on. Wait a bit.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +2 Power to the next card you play.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 1 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 2002
A music identification app: hold your phone's microphone to a song and it names the track from a short sample.
It matches about 10 seconds of audio against a database of millions of audio fingerprints. Apple bought the British company in 2018 for a reported $400 million.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2002 page.
Put it on your site
Run Shazam, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 2002. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2002, then plays a short scene. Want Shazam in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
