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The Amazing Fishcam (1994)
A fish tank inside Netscape, live on the web, with a new picture every minute.
- Cost
- 6 RAM
- Power
- 11
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Pioneer (up to 1994)
- Collection
- The Weird Web
What it does
On reveal: -3 Power to the strongest enemy card here.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 6 RAM to play and brings 11 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Tech cards bend the rules: more RAM, cheaper cards and patches that weaken the other side.
The site, in 1994
A live webcam pointed at the fish tank in Lou Montulli's office at Netscape, which anyone on the web could watch.
Montulli, a founding Netscape engineer and co-author of the Lynx browser, set it up in late summer 1994, inspired by Cambridge's coffee pot camera. Netscape hid a shortcut to it in its browser, and it calls itself the oldest camera site still running.
In 1994: Began in late summer with a 40-gallon tank and an SGI IndyCam; each picture took nearly 20 seconds of computer time to make.
Pioneer era, up to 1994. Grey pages, blue links and a browser called Mosaic. Images were optional. So was colour.
The Weird Web: One page, one joke, no reason. The internet at its best.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1994 page.
Put it on your site
Run The Amazing Fishcam, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1994. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1994, then plays a short scene. Want The Amazing Fishcam in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
