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The Useless Pages (1994)
A tour of the web's most pointless pages, each with a caption sharper than the page.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 0
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Pioneer (up to 1994)
- Collection
- The Weird Web
What it does
On reveal: +3 Power to the next card you play.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 0 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Media cards broadcast Power to your other lanes.
The site, in 1994
A hand-picked list of links to the web's most pointless pages, each with a wry caption, which grew into a directory sorted by category.
Paul Phillips started it in 1994; Steve Berlin took over in 1995 and John Gephart IV kept it going until early 2001. It spread many small early web jokes, had imitators and its own Yahoo category, and Marc Andreessen called it one of the best sites on the web.
In 1994: Paul Phillips started the list this year, linking to pages he judged gloriously useless.
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 Useless Pages, 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 Useless Pages in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
