dub3 card · im.qq.com
Tencent QQ (1999)
Y2K compliant.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 9
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +1 Power to your other cards here.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 9 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.
The site, in 1999
Tencent's instant messaging service and web portal, which also offers games, music, shopping, microblogging and voice chat.
It began in February 1999 as OICQ, short for "Open ICQ", and was renamed QQ after a threat of legal action from ICQ's owner, AOL. By March 2023 it had 597 million monthly active accounts.
In 1999: Released in February as OICQ, a "network paging" service in the style of ICQ.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1999 page.
Put it on your site
Run Tencent QQ, 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 1999, then plays a short scene. Want Tencent QQ in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
