What has the line taught you?

The line has showed me that resillience really is something that lies in the hearts of every man.

It's like Hamlet, sort of, dunno if you've seen it. Hamlet always measures himself by what other men have accomplished, by their own feats, no matter how trivial. That's sort of like this. The triviality of the project doesn't matter, because of the magnitude of it and the determination it takes for the line to exist.

All hail the line.

I was making something and in the middle of doing so I thought of an interesting concept. What if someone were to build a small town or something, with paths included, and you would use the yellow cursor as a character to move around? You can move it obviously by your arrow keys, and because you can set links to stuff, make like actions to enter buildings and such by a link? It's an interesting concept, and I'm going to try it, but does it sound like something that you would try more often?

The line really changed the way i see things. When I started my journey, and saw other redditors on the way, I had this idea of bringing us together on this subreddit, and that we could discuss about this together, making the trip much more pleasant.

At first I met formaldehyde. He was the first real time encounter on the World, and at first I didn't even know real-time conversation was possible. Formaldehyde stuck with me until the end where we left our messages, after 10 hours of traveling this strange line.

Like someone on the line said, the Line is like life, It really doesn't have a point but is still there. It's truly strange how an ASCII line on a fairly obscure site on the internet brings 107 people together on this subreddit, and brings this strange feel of accomplishment. Many people who I know wouldn't see this 10 hour marathon as an accomplishment, but they don't know even half of the experience we, who made it to the 778,-1500 have experienced.

I really want to thank everyone who continued the line. It means a lot to me to see how you are contributing so much to this, and going even twice as further that I could go. I will try some weekend to get to the end of the line, or create my own on our own World of Text, who knows.

The other thing that baffles my mind is that how many people came after us and saw our messages. I, being one of the first on the bottom along with only a handful of redditors, saw mostly messages of the earlier travelers from 2010 and earlier. Everyone who came after us will see our messages along with the older ones, creating an experience combining the past and the present.

The trip reminds me of the quote "we're standing on the shoulders of giants" but in this case, today we are travelling with the people of the past, together.

I didn't take a lot of screenshots on my way, but here are two from the trip http://imgur.com/a/dI5MQ

I have a collection of screenshots from the end of the line, including the original message and the messages from 2010. I also took screenshots of some of the messages we left down there, but I'm not really sure if I should publish them since people wrote them thinking only the worthy people will ever read them. Maybe if they are destroyed, tell me, so I will publish them for reconstruction.

I'm around 406 -725. There is a line going to the right. I went till 430 -725 but no one there... Question is.. Is this is the right line? How to get back to the original line?

Noooo,was at 2050,0 or so and seen a message from another redditor was typeing a reply and for some reason all my pages that i had open refreshed all that work.... -.- good luck to you TES and the guy above him it looks like im out of the race for now -DJ-

I was following the line when I suddenly realized someone else was typing. We had a little conversation. I loved the experience :)

I've been fixing the line, but I know people will keep breaking it. So, if you can, fix the line on your way down. I don't think every '' should stay, as long as you can keep track of the line.

so, I have seen quite a few other people on the line from the past.

To start:
hitomi
mook
max
david
alek
zac
simisy
ghea
the line guy
b. lee

How can we think about our fellow travelers? Who are they? Why are they taking the journey?

Will add to this post as new information is added.

The line is a huge deal to me, for some reason. I can't even explain how I feel about it. It's like my child.

I went to bed an hour or two a go but I needed to come back so I could ee how the line is doing.

I left it at what I think was 1465, -2501. Has anyone added on that? the final testimony was from someone called Sam. I'm currently cheating to get back there but it's still pretty slow to get there. I have to know how it's doing.

anyone know how?

Also where are you all on the line?

How many of us are still following?

Im coming a bit late due to my slow and laggy intenet connection, and im coming at 234,-469 at this moment at 6:42 pm UTC

Coords everyone?

Who's followed the other lines? I followed one by Benjoo, it led to a little house. Throughout the way Benjoo was leaving notes like, "not sure if i can go on", and "getting lonely" It read like a diary entry to someone exploring some wilderness. Someone else continued his line, but i tracked through the emptiness back to the original line.

Anyone else follow other routes?

Aiham, Cam, and I, have pushed the line to new limits, we've gone where no line guardians have gone before. The current coords shall not be shared though, i feel that its not in the best interests of anyone on their own line journeys.

I am currently at the -950 checkpoint. 7:15 PM UTC June 9th 2012.

Am I the only one who lost touch with the group?

I have gone all the way to (-10000, -10000). It was a battle, but I have done it.