dub3 card · www.trivago.com
Trivago (2005)
Still in beta.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 5
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: Draw 1 card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 5 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.
The site, in 2005
A hotel search site that compares prices from many booking sites, based in Düsseldorf, Germany.
It was founded in 2005 as Germany's first hotel search engine. Expedia agreed in 2012 to pay $632 million for a stake, and Trivago listed on Nasdaq in December 2016.
In 2005: Founded in Düsseldorf in January by Rolf Schrömgens, Peter Vinnemeier and Malte Siewert, with €1 million from investors including the Samwer brothers.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2005 page.
Put it on your site
Run Trivago, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2005, then plays a short scene. Want Trivago in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
