Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Blue Mountain's whimsical missives don't strike your fancy, there are other sites worth visiting. The free E-Greetings Network egreetings.com offers animated Austin Powers cards ("Very Shagadelic!"), along with Star Trek- and King of the Hill-themed cards. Unfortunately, the site's obnoxious registration form requires personal data, such as year of birth and zip code, before letting you send a card. For photo-realistic images, nothing tops the selection at Corbis.com which lets visitors turn any of its thousands of high-resolution art and nature images into digital postcards. The one catch: www.corbis.com prominently appears on each...
...always been a greeting-card snob. My rules: No dumb jokes, no trite sayings and definitely no electronic greeting cards. As far as I was concerned, only a cheapskate would send an electronic greeting instead of the real deal, signed in ink and sealed with a kiss. So I was more than a little skeptical on my birthday when I came across a message in my e-mail In box titled "Celebrate--From Martin." But when I clicked on the message and followed its instructions to copy a Web address into my browser, my cynicism melted. There, bursting onscreen...
Even better, the greeting came from my elder brother Martin, who had never mailed me a "real" birthday card. Then came a second e-card from a friend at work, and another from a gym buddy. By day's end I had almost as many electronic greetings as old-fashioned paper ones...
...electronic cards came from Blue Mountain Arts bluemountain.com) a free site with more than 1,000 animated greetings for every occasion from Easter to Nauroze, the Zoroastrian celebration of spring, on March 21. To use the site, simply click on a holiday or occasion, pick a card you like, fill in the names and e-mail addresses of yourself and the recipient, and add a personal note. A preview option allows you to see how your card will look and sound (and check for typos!). Then you're ready to send...
There are dozens of free greeting-card sites online (see electronicpostcards.net or type "electronic greeting cards" in the search box at yahoo.com for lists), but Blue Mountain is by far the most popular. While some sites can be a hassle--requiring either a membership, special add-on applications or file transfers to your hard drive to see and send cards--Blue Mountain is refreshingly simple. If you know how to fill out a form, you can send a card. Also, the site's quirky graphics and discreet ads give it a homey feel...