dub3 card · www.potatoland.org/shredder
Shredder 1.0 (1998)
Type in any web address and get it back torn to bits: text, pictures, code and all.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 5
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Net Art
What it does
Ongoing: If this is your only card here, +4 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 5 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Creators cards are strongest on their own, and some only get going late.
The site, in 1998
Mark Napier's alternative browser that loads any website you name and shreds its text, images and code into an abstract collage.
Napier released it in 1998 from potatoland.org, his online studio, inspired by the Web Stalker browser and Jackson Pollock. It was shown in ZKM's net_condition show and at Ars Electronica, which gave it an honourable mention in 1999.
In 1998: Released this year: a Perl script took the address you entered and redrew that page as shreds.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Net Art: Websites that are artworks, by people who saw the browser as a canvas.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1998 page.
Put it on your site
Run Shredder 1.0, 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 Shredder 1.0 in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
