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Yahoo! Mail (1997)
Please upgrade your plug-in.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 5
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: A random card in your hand costs 1 less.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 5 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 1997
A free webmail service from Yahoo, now used by an estimated 225 million people.
Yahoo launched it on 8 October 1997 by buying Four11 for $92 million in stock and using its RocketMail service, since building one would have taken months while Hotmail kept growing.
In 1997: Launched on 8 October, the day Yahoo announced it was buying Four11, whose RocketMail technology it ran on.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1997 page.
Put it on your site
Run Yahoo! Mail, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1997. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1997, then plays a short scene. Want Yahoo! Mail in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
