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dub3's pixel tribute to Unsplash in 2013: a Modern-era photo site
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2013 page

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Unsplash (2013)

You are visitor number 000042.

Cost
4 RAM
Power
8
Rarity
Common
Family
Creators
Era
Modern (2009 on)
Collection
The Long Tail

What it does

No ability.

No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.

It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 8 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 2013

A site of free-to-use photographs shared by contributing photographers under its own Unsplash licence.

It began on 29 May 2013 as a Tumblr blog of leftover photos from a shoot for Crew, Mikael Cho's company, and had over 50,000 visits on day one. By April 2023 it held over five million photos. Getty Images has owned it since 2021.

Modern era, 2009 on. Phones, feeds and cookie banners. The web got fast, flat and very sure about notifications.

The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2013 page.

Put it on your site

Run Unsplash, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:

Unsplash is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2013, then plays a short scene. Want Unsplash in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.