dub3 card · www.taobao.com
Taobao (2003)
Free listings, chat with the seller, and a fight with eBay for China.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 3
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Commerce
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- Megacorps
What it does
On reveal: The first card you play next round costs 1 less.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 3 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 2003
Alibaba's consumer marketplace, where small businesses and individuals open online shops, sell at fixed prices or by auction, and chat with buyers.
Alibaba launched it in 2003 to counter eBay's purchase of EachNet, with free listings, instant messaging and later Alipay escrow. Its share rose from 8% to 59% by 2005, and it was the world's eighth most visited site in 2021.
In 2003: The taobao.com address was registered on 21 April, and the site opened that year as a free-listing rival to eBay's EachNet.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
Megacorps: The giants. You've used most of them today.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2003 page.
Put it on your site
Run Taobao, 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 Taobao in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
