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dub3's pixel tribute to Virgilio in 1996: a Boom-era web portal
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1996 page

dub3 card · www.virgilio.it

Virgilio (1996)

Did you mean: everything?

Cost
1 RAM
Power
2
Rarity
Common
Family
Search
Era
Boom (1995 to 1998)
Collection
The Long Tail

What it does

No ability.

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

It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 2 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 1996

Italy's first web portal, which began as a search engine and directory edited by hand, in the manner of Yahoo!

It grew to include webmail, chat and a page for each Italian town, more than 8,100 of them. By November 2015, half of Italy's web users visited every month.

Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.

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

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1996 page.

Put it on your site

Run Virgilio, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1996. Paste this into your page:

Virgilio is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1996, then plays a short scene. Want Virgilio in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.