dub3 card · www.skyscanner.net
Skyscanner (2003)
Ask it anything. Politely.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: Draw 1 card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 8 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.
The site, in 2003
A flight and travel search site, based in Edinburgh, that compares prices from partners rather than selling tickets itself.
Gareth Williams, Barry Smith and Bonamy Grimes launched it in 2003. Set the destination to 'Everywhere' and it shows the cheapest places to fly from your city. Trip.com Group bought it in 2016 for $1.75 billion.
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 2003 page.
Put it on your site
Run Skyscanner, 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 2003, then plays a short scene. Want Skyscanner in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
