dub3 card · www.souq.com
Souq.com (2005)
Still in beta.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Commerce
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
No ability.
No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.
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.
Commerce cards grow every round and make your opponent pay more to play.
The site, in 2005
An English and Arabic online marketplace launched in Dubai, which grew to be the largest in the Arab world.
Amazon bought it for $580 million in March 2017, then folded it into its own stores, starting with the UAE in 2019. Egypt's site became Amazon.eg in September 2021, ending Souq.com.
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 2005 page.
Put it on your site
Run Souq.com, 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 2005, then plays a short scene. Want Souq.com in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
