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The Thing (1995)
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- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 9
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Net Art
What it does
Ongoing: If this is your only card here, +4 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
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.
Creators cards are strongest on their own, and some only get going late.
The site, in 1995
An online community of artists, critics and curators started by Wolfgang Staehle in New York, with forums, mailing lists, artists' sites and web hosting.
It began in 1991 as a dial-up bulletin board for contemporary art and theory, adding nodes in Cologne and Vienna. Its website appeared in 1995 for Ars Electronica, and it grew into a leading centre of early new media culture.
In 1995: Went onto the web this year, with a site made for a presentation at Ars Electronica.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Net Art: Websites that are artworks, by people who saw the browser as a canvas.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1995 page.
Put it on your site
Run The Thing, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1995. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1995, then plays a short scene. Want The Thing in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
