dub3 card · www.babelfish.com
Yahoo! Babel Fish (2008)
Have you tried turning it off and on?
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- Dead Links
What it does
On reveal: +1 RAM next round.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
RAM is what you spend to play cards.
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.
Tech cards bend the rules: more RAM, cheaper cards and patches that weaken the other side.
The site, in 2008
A free machine translation service for text and web pages, named after the fish in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Billed as the oldest free online translator, it began on AltaVista in December 1997 and handled 36 language pairs across 13 languages. Microsoft's Bing Translator replaced it in May 2012.
In 2008: In May the address moved from babelfish.altavista.com to babelfish.yahoo.com.
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 2008 page.
Put it on your site
Run Yahoo! Babel Fish, 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 Yahoo! Babel Fish in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
