dub3 card · www.urbandictionary.com
Urban Dictionary (1999)
Y2K compliant.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
Ongoing: +2 Power to this card for each card you have here, up to +4.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 6 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 1999
A crowdsourced dictionary of slang, where anyone can submit definitions, usage examples and tags.
Aaron Peckham began it as a student parody of stuffy dictionaries. By 2014 it held over seven million definitions, with about 2,000 added daily. A UK High Court judge reportedly used it in 2003 to read rap lyrics.
In 1999: Peckham, a first-year computer science student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, started it to compare slang used at different Californian universities.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1999 page.
Put it on your site
Run Urban Dictionary, 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 1999, then plays a short scene. Want Urban Dictionary in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
