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Yahoo! Answers (2005)
Ask anything. Strangers answer, sometimes correctly. Best Answer wins the points.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 3
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- Dead Links
What it does
On reveal: +1 Power to your cards in other lanes.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 3 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.
The site, in 2005
Yahoo's question-and-answer community, where anyone could ask a question in any category and other members answered it for points.
Public from December 2005 until May 2021, it claimed 200 million users in 2009. Badly formed questions and wrong answers made it a running joke, and Archive Team saved 4.75 TB of it before the end.
In 2005: The public beta opened on 8 December, replacing Ask Yahoo! with a points system modelled on Naver's Knowledge iN.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
Dead Links: Gone, but not forgotten. Mostly forgotten.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2005 page.
Put it on your site
Run Yahoo! Answers, 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 2005, then plays a short scene. Want Yahoo! Answers in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
