dub3 card · www.lens.org
The Lens (2000)
Y2K compliant.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 4
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Institutions
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Establishment
What it does
Ongoing: If you're losing here, +3 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 4 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Institutions cards protect your side, and come back strong when you're losing.
The site, in 2000
A free searchable database of patents and scholarly papers, run by the Australian nonprofit Cambia and once called Patent Lens.
It draws records from sources such as Crossref, PubMed, Microsoft Academic and OpenAlex and pulls them into one place, so patents and papers can be searched together.
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 Establishment: Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2000 page.
Put it on your site
Run The Lens, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 2000. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2000, then plays a short scene. Want The Lens in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
