dub3 card · www.tripod.com
Tripod (1997)
The third pillar of free web hosting, quietly doing its thing.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Under Construction
What it does
Ongoing: If this is your only card here, +3 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 6 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 1997
A free web hosting service for home pages, first aimed at college students, and later owned by Lycos.
It began with Williams College classmates Bo Peabody and Brett Hershey and a professor, Dick Sabot. Lycos bought it in 1998 for a reported $58 million. Free pages ended in 2009, and it shut on 24 April 2026.
In 1997: Raised a $10 million round in May with about 40 employees, hoping for profit in early 1998. Lycos announced its purchase in February 1998.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Under Construction: Homepages, fan shrines and the GIFs that decorated them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1997 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1997, then plays a short scene. Want Tripod in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
