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The Daily WTF (2004)
Real code so bad it deserves its own blooper reel, posted daily.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 2
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- Cult Classics
What it does
No ability.
No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 2 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 2004
A humour blog of real-world bad code, baffling error messages and IT project disasters sent in by working programmers.
Alex Papadimoulis began it on 17 May 2004 as posts about the code at his job, then gave it its own domain. It named anti-patterns such as Softcoding and the Inner-Platform Effect, and was briefly renamed Worse Than Failure in 2007.
In 2004: Began on 17 May as 'Your Daily Cup of WTF' on Papadimoulis's blog; its own domain followed days later.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
Cult Classics: Small, strange and loved to bits by the people who found them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2004 page.
Put it on your site
Run The Daily WTF, 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 2004, then plays a short scene. Want The Daily WTF in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
