dub3 card · www.cs.virginia.edu/~bct7m/bacon.html
The Oracle of Bacon (1996)
Name any actor. It finds the shortest chain of films back to Kevin Bacon.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Weird Web
What it does
No ability.
No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 8 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Games cards roll the dice. Sometimes the dice roll you.
The site, in 1996
A web toy that links any film actor to Kevin Bacon through the shortest chain of shared movies, using data from a film database.
Two University of Virginia computer science graduate students, Brett Tjaden and Glen Wasson, put the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon party game online. An early magazine write-up counted about 20,000 visitors a day. It still runs at oracleofbacon.org.
In 1996: Running on the University of Virginia's computer science server, using data from the Internet Movie Database.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
The Weird Web: One page, one joke, no reason. The internet at its best.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1996 page.
Put it on your site
Run The Oracle of Bacon, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1996. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1996, then plays a short scene. Want The Oracle of Bacon in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
