dub3 card · www.shazam.com
Shazam (2007)
Buffering... 12%
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- 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 2007
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.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2007 page.
Put it on your site
Run Shazam, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2007, 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.
