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Yahoo! JAPAN (1996)
Japan's first web portal: a directory first, then news, auctions and weather.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 5
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Megacorps
What it does
On reveal: Draw 1 card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 5 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
Japan's biggest web portal, run separately from the US Yahoo, offering a search directory and later news, auctions, weather and maps.
Yahoo and SoftBank set it up in January 1996 and it went live on 1 April. It was Japan's most visited website in October 2018, and still keeps a design close to Yahoo's pre-2007 look and the old red logo.
In 1996: Went live on 1 April as Japan's first web portal, built around a Yahoo-style category directory.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Megacorps: The giants. You've used most of them today.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1996 page.
Put it on your site
Run Yahoo! JAPAN, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1996. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1996, then plays a short scene. Want Yahoo! JAPAN in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
