dub3 card · www.lonelyplanet.com
Thorn Tree (1996)
A guidebook firm's message board, named after a Nairobi tree where travellers left notes.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 10
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Dead Links
What it does
No ability.
No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.
It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 10 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.
The site, in 1996
Lonely Planet's online travel forum, where travellers asked questions and swapped advice about destinations around the world.
Created in 1996, it took its name from a thorn tree at Nairobi's Stanley Hotel that had served as a message board since 1902. It was locked read-only in April 2020 and shut down in September 2021.
In 1996: Created this year as the online community of the guidebook publisher Lonely Planet.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Dead Links: Gone, but not forgotten. Mostly forgotten.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1996 page.
Put it on your site
Run Thorn Tree, 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 Thorn Tree in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
