dub3 card · www.webvan.com
Webvan (1996)
Online grocery delivery that burned through $830M.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Commerce
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Dead Links
What it does
On reveal: The first card you play next round costs 1 less.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 1 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Commerce cards grow every round and make your opponent pay more to play.
The site, in 1996
An online grocery company from Foster City, California, that delivered to your door within a 30-minute window you chose.
Louis Borders, a co-founder of the Borders bookshops, started it. It lost over $800 million and filed for bankruptcy in July 2001, laying off 2,000 staff. Its plastic shipping tubs ended up as household storage.
In 1996: Founded this year, in the middle of the dot-com bubble. It did not take its first orders until June 1999.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Dead Links: Gone, but not forgotten. Mostly forgotten.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1996 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1996, then plays a short scene. Want Webvan in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
