dub3 card · ytinstant.com
YouTube Instant (2010)
Ask it anything. Politely.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Modern (2009 on)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
Ongoing: +2 Power to this card for each card you have here, up to +4.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 6 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 2010
A search page for YouTube videos that updated its results with every letter you typed.
Feross Aboukhadijeh, a 19-year-old Stanford student interning at Facebook, built it in September 2010, in the wake of Google Instant. YouTube's chief executive, Chad Hurley, offered him a job soon afterwards.
Modern era, 2009 on. Phones, feeds and cookie banners. The web got fast, flat and very sure about notifications.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2010 page.
Put it on your site
Run YouTube Instant, 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 2010, then plays a short scene. Want YouTube Instant in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
