dub3 card · viaf.org
Virtual International Authority File (2008)
Indexed before you were looking.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 7
- Rarity
- Epic
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Establishment
What it does
When you play a card here: +2 Power to this card.
When you play a card here fires each time you add another card to that lane.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 7 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 2008
A shared index of authors' names, made by linking the name files of national libraries and run by OCLC.
It began in 1998 as a test by the Library of Congress, the German National Library and OCLC. One VIAF record gathers the different spellings and forms of a name used by each library.
In 2008: The Bibliothèque nationale de France had joined the project in October 2007.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Establishment: Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2008 page.
Put it on your site
Run Virtual International Authority File, 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 2008, then plays a short scene. Want Virtual International Authority File in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
