dub3 card · slacvm.slac.stanford.edu
SLAC (1991)
North America's first website: a physics paper database, switched on in 1991.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Institutions
- Era
- Pioneer (up to 1994)
- Collection
- The Establishment
What it does
On reveal: If an enemy card was revealed here earlier this round, +2 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 6 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Institutions cards protect your side, and come back strong when you're losing.
The site, in 1991
SLAC's first web page, the SLACVM Information Service, which let physicists anywhere search the SPIRES database of high-energy physics preprints.
Paul Kunz visited Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in September 1991 and brought the software back to Stanford. SLAC switched on North America's first web server on 12 December 1991, making SPIRES the first database reachable through the web.
In 1991: Went live on 12 December, putting the SPIRES-HEP preprint database on the web.
Pioneer era, up to 1994. Grey pages, blue links and a browser called Mosaic. Images were optional. So was colour.
The Establishment: Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1991 page.
Put it on your site
Run SLAC, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1991. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1991, then plays a short scene. Want SLAC in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
