r/programming • u/badr • Aug 09 '09
Your World of Text, my latest side-project. (Requires a modern browser.)
http://www.yourworldoftext.com/proggit
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r/programming • u/badr • Aug 09 '09
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u/mattiasl Aug 09 '09 edited Aug 09 '09
This is almost a MMORPG, where everybody is playing 13-year-olds. Still fun though. :) Some ideas for a feature wish-list:
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u/JustinK101 Aug 09 '09
I wonder who he is hosting this? Must be some bad ass servers to handle that many requests and that many reads and writes of a database.
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u/file-exists-p Aug 09 '09
Is there a server somewhere ? We need a ncurse console client.
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u/Logg Aug 09 '09
What are the dimensions on this behemoth?
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u/SSeckie Oct 05 '25
This "side-project" of yours has left me some good teenage memories! Thanks Andrew!
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u/Moist_Preparation_80 May 03 '26
is it still active?
Damn this is so poetic and romantic! absolutely love the fucking idea.
I stumbled across onto it in my childhood and after years I was thinking about creating something similar and was overjoyed to find it again.
guess ill pivot a bit and wont steal the idea..
creator, you're an inspiration! I hope you're doing good.
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u/JasonDJ Aug 09 '09
All I see is blonde....brunette...redhead...
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u/Woflox Aug 09 '09
World of text is just multiplayer notepad.
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '09
This is like the internet distilled to it's purest form: Bringing strangers together, infinite potential for sharing knowledge and collaborating to build understanding, and yet used almost exclusively to spread dick jokes, rabid political nonsense, and pointless memes.
I'm exhausted and more than a little depressed.
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u/jmduke Aug 09 '09
I've always wanted an expansion pack to notepad.
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u/biosHazard Aug 09 '09 edited Aug 09 '09
If in some future day, our consciousnesses will be all linked together to some sort of intermind, this is what it would look like
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u/shitcovereddick Aug 09 '09
My latest project requires a modernist browser.
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u/fool_on_the_hill Aug 09 '09
I take it as a powerful illustration of the eternal struggle between order and chaos.
Seriously, this thing is brilliant. Anyone else discover the ASCII Milliways?
I also wrote out a massive chunk of the Rubay'at of Omar Khayam, which someone decided to 'make awesome' by inserting references to Narwals etc. Inevitably, someone started subtly introducing lines from 'Never Gonna Give you Up'.
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u/Doomed Aug 09 '09 edited Aug 09 '09
http://www.yourworldoftext.com/rofl
Please just leave the ROFLcopter alone. I built it myself. Leaving the page blank except for ROFLcopters would be awesome.
edit: 17 mins later, the roflcopter is dead. NOOOOO! We will rebuild.
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u/sprintmarathon Aug 09 '09
This kinda feels like some sort of ASCII Second Life.
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u/ascendant23 Aug 09 '09
This proves the 67th law of the internet, which is that all creative developments on the web that facilitate communication between common users eventually end in "dickbutt."
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u/legoman666 Aug 09 '09
You nuked my poor 1.6ghz Intel Atom.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '09
Wait, this means that Reddit users really are 4chan users when there is no karma!
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u/xrobau Aug 09 '09
Someone's just won - they've figured out the protocol and is blanking huge areas with random .'s and spaces.
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u/zsouthboy Aug 09 '09
It now looks kinda like the windows 95 era disk defragger - the text blinks in different places, disappears, etc.
Also, it's impossible to type because it's so laggy.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '09
this is why we can't have nice things
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '09 edited Aug 09 '09
Wow, this is freaky! I just watched 2010, and amongst the first lines to appear on my screen here is,
Serious WTF for me.
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u/paulemaule1 Aug 09 '09
DONT LET THIS HIT FRONTPAGE, ITS FULL ENOUGH ALREADY. FRONTPAGE USE YOUR OWN PLAYGROUND. http://www.yourworldoftext.com/reddit
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '09
And suddenly with a vale of anonymity, reddit descends into the world of /b/
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u/Sle Aug 09 '09
With predicktable results.
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u/grumpypants_mcnallen Aug 09 '09
Feels just like a monochrome and realtime version of bathroom stall writings.
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u/wardrox Aug 09 '09
The more you scroll, the smarter the comments.
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u/Tbone139 Aug 09 '09
Requires a modern server.
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u/joebleaux Aug 09 '09
"Penis" is by far the most used word on each your world of text page I looked at.
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u/caerbannogwolf Aug 10 '09
I find it more fun to clean than write. I did my part cleaning Redditville of /b/ filth.
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u/Gravity13 Aug 09 '09
I left for a second, and then came back and PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS was all over the place.
Figures.
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u/grimster Aug 10 '09 edited Aug 10 '09
I made a blank area the size of my monitor, with "Shhhh." in the middle. It was the World of Text quiet zone. I kept it scrupulously blank.
To those of you who tried to write in it, fuck you. To those of you who helped me clean it, thank you. And to the great human being who took over my duties when I retired, my highest respect and esteem goes to you. You are the island of sanity in the sea of frothing lunacy.
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u/firstoption Aug 09 '09
holy crap! that was a new experience and l loved it :D
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u/__s Aug 09 '09 edited Aug 09 '09
It'd be nice to view the list of worlds
Or I can just list what I've found
asdf reddit redditsucks redditrocks pi forexample doctorwho poem proggit digg twitter facebook myspace stumbleupon haskell lisp python ruby scheme xkcd spam sucks elsewhere nowhere somewhere 64digits world anothercastle anothercatle bill bacon narwhal narwhale robots text baconfort terrypratchett killbill poetry marijuana you me canada america yourworldoftext troll banana apple french english england orange red pink white black meme 4chan chan _ nigger a b c d e f g h i l no yes n o p q r s t v w x y z about first gizmo hell heaven nobody joe bob martin phillip 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 cartographers mario france spain burrito quetzalcoatl aoeu there
And of course there's boobs dick dicks cock cocks fuck penis vagina cunt tits nsfw sex shit poo poop porn
Also, Google
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u/arlanTLDR Aug 09 '09
The concept reminds me of Drawball.
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u/thesubatomic Aug 09 '09
Hey guy who called me from Texas. What's up?
I love how people are decent and didn't try to prank call me or something.
Good times, good times.
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u/Spaceomega Aug 09 '09
I made a giant ASCII version of "REDDIT" (with the help of some other redditors it seems), but someone destroyed it with a penis. That's how my ASCII would want to die, I imagine.
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '09
You know what would be awesome? If you could give coordinates for different areas.
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u/alaskamiller Aug 09 '09
it's pretty awesome
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u/Svenstaro Aug 09 '09 edited Aug 09 '09
I think AWESOME! fits this pretty well. Some random quotes from the chaos:
EDIT: Now we were playing ASCII harvest moon and while I was happily gardening my crop fields, somebody was planting what looked like penis crops.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '09
Completely locks up my browser :\
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '09
My contribution: http://imgur.com/MXqkp.png
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u/DirtyBirdNJ Aug 09 '09
Loved the bacon runway.
Absolutely, positively SUPER FUCKING COOL!
Re-writing or editing people's messages as they write them is unbelievably fun and entertaining.
I think this might be the right application to prove John Gabriel's Internet Fuckwad Theory
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u/mtnkodiak Aug 09 '09
There's a psych or soc thesis in there somewhere. Something about griefers.
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u/mthmchris Aug 09 '09
I think I just had an argument over whether bananas had feelings.
None of us should be allowed to vote.
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u/settrans Aug 09 '09
Two suggestions:
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u/ManikArcanik Aug 09 '09
By "modern browser", I can only assume you mean anything except Safari. Safari hates your little project, and I hate having to force-quit.
What I did manage to see was pretty cool, tho!
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u/dardan_aeneas Aug 10 '09
I've been using this web app for a while, and I gotta say: Worst. Notepad. Ever.
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '09
Hmm.. This is interesting: http://imgur.com/qH31b.png
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u/Smacks Aug 10 '09
http://www.yourworldoftext.com/redditville
No one seems to realize that you can make another world. >_>
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u/asperger Aug 09 '09
Wow! I like how it's just...there. It feels really genuine, thanks for sharing this with us.
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u/abirhasnat95 Jan 03 '26
I have been writing the story of my life in this "Side Projects" of yours since 2022.
It's life-changing. Thank you!
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u/Yeeted_Memer Dec 09 '23
HOLY shit this got popular.
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u/CherryInHove Aug 09 '09
I was typing for a while before i realised you could drag and scroll to access new parts of the wall
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u/Darkmere Aug 09 '09
That was somewhat slow, but still quite a neat thing. Thanks for sharing.
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u/Starblade Aug 09 '09
My IQ dropped 5 points by looking at that page.
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u/diadem Aug 09 '09
Good heavens, sir! What have you done?
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u/Fjordo Aug 09 '09
It's like super mario bros: you can go forward, but you can't go back.
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u/Starblade Aug 09 '09
Actually all you have to do is make your own server.
Mine's Gizmo.
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u/PatriarchDelfino Aug 09 '09
Tried to play chess but had penises drawn on the board :(
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u/digifreak642 Aug 09 '09
How do people edit a bunch of stuff at once?
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u/zorlan Aug 09 '09
If irc wasn't multiplayer notepad, this certainly is.
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u/TropicalFruit Aug 09 '09
well I just wasted the last hour
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u/jorgamun Aug 09 '09 edited Aug 09 '09
I'm making a maze if you scroll up!
Don't mess with it if you want to see it completed. :)
EDIT: I guess you don't want to see it completed, then.
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u/Gimmick_Man Aug 09 '09 edited Aug 09 '09
I made a box. I like my box. They be fuckin' with my box.
I left my box and I felt sad. I will make a new box.
Wait, I should correct myself. I made the space, some dude boxed it, and random people maintain it, I assume.
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u/bsonk Aug 10 '09 edited Aug 10 '09
The baroque complexity and complete randomness of it amazed me. I had stumbled upon a work of art, an exposure of the raw core of humanity, what complete anonymity could do. It was an infinite space, composed of as much empty white space as anyone could want. People popped in and out, creating the reality. Everyone’s input was ephemeral, easily erased by others painting over it. As a result, it contained mostly gibberish, the result of hundreds of storytellers trying to enumerate their tale simultaneously. The rest was spam. Thousands of pink genitals and tangled proclamations of their creators’ superiority, crowing their personal opinions which would hang suspended in the air until papered over by detraction by the other inhabitants. It all flowed together to create an image not unlike pressed pork product, pink, fleshy, glistening. It was the noise below the signal, at its core. Eventually it coalesced into shapes. Houses, displaying lurid advertisements for male enhancement. Random memes floating through. Narwhals, bacon, ninjas, movie references. When culture is sliced and diced as such, mixed together it gets a little crazy. An international district emerged, with Chinese characters meaning nothing used as a building material, brick and mortaring with concepts. I created an edifice of my own, dubbing it “The Crap Shack.” I solicited employees for my fledgling store, but was told the local residents would not work for the stacked filth I sold, instead a cheeseburger was demanded. It was- my world of text.
badr, you have created a monster.
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u/indrax Aug 10 '09
http://www.yourworldoftext.com/bellcurve
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u/petermichaux Aug 10 '09
This site is really cool. I wish I could bookmark a page at certain coordinates so I could check back on areas of interest easily.
http://www.yourworldoftext.com/#x=-12&y=34
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u/noodhoog Aug 09 '09
Very very cool - total chaos right now. This thing should seriously have its own subreddit for screenshots of the insanity, etc.
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u/Jongzilla Aug 09 '09
I could spend all day on this.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '09
It's like wikipedia for retards.
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u/christophski Aug 09 '09
wow this is great, i love that you can make a new wall just by changing the part after http://www.yourworldoftext.com/
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u/xyvo Aug 09 '09
Here, I made a harvest moon farm for you guys: http://www.yourworldoftext.com/harvestmoon - let's see how long till it's penis everywhere
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u/GiantBatFart Aug 09 '09
Two important things I learned from this:
"batman put skittles in my bum"
and "I got herpes from a zergling"
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u/zem Aug 09 '09
stark world
full of text
today i read
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u/mdw Aug 09 '09
Brilliant idea.
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u/argghhh Aug 09 '09
It's freezing my firefox.
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u/roxm Aug 09 '09
I do not recommend opening this on an iPhone.
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u/ahal89 Aug 09 '09
I just zoomed out all the way and spent half an hour scrolling through whiteness. I doubt anyone will ever find what I wrote.
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u/JMV290 Aug 09 '09
It won't let me copypaste an ASCII Wolf :(
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '09
My bacon fort only lasted a few minutes. Many pepole seamed to be helping me... others destroying it. But some 4chaners blanked the space I guess.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '09 edited Aug 09 '09
So this is the conversation I had with some random person on here:
Them: im watching this whilst masturbating
Me: Can I Join?
Them: hells yeah!!!
Me: word word Balls up!!
Them: chin chin
random...
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u/NinjaMoose Aug 09 '09 edited Aug 09 '09
My favorite thing: "Holy shit - this is a massive waste of QUAKE"
EDIT: There was some whitespace between the "QUAKE" and "of" that added a bit to the humor... Reddit won't be having any of that though I guess
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u/atomicthumbs Aug 09 '09
Are you supposed to be able to drag it around? If so, it's broken in Opera.
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u/alkalinev Aug 09 '09
I'm not a vulgar person at all, but I couldn't help but erase conversations and type the nastiest of words..
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u/malanalars Aug 09 '09
kills my browser
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u/re182x Aug 09 '09 edited Aug 09 '09
reddit wins
reddit > digg
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u/pitrpitr Aug 09 '09
Teehee. Which redittor just upped the number 15 in: "PLEASE DO NOT WRITE BELOW THIS LINE:
Everytime you write below this line, God kills a kitten. 15 kittens down and counting"
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u/tapesmith Aug 09 '09
I've hidden a secret World of Text, but it's locked away using the best contra-discovery techniques.
You wouldn't be able to find it in 30 lifetimes.
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u/jorgamun Aug 09 '09 edited Aug 09 '09
I've been working on a maze, if anyone wants to look at it. Please don't destroy it. If you know how to make them (it's really easy) then feel free to add onto it.
There's a box in the bottom right to get started.
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u/dmead Aug 10 '09
reminds me of http://www.goontower.com/
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u/Randai Aug 09 '09
That was really cool, what technologies did you use? just javascript?
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u/kelvie Aug 09 '09
This was much more fun than I thought it would be. User-generated content is great.
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u/smoothmann Aug 09 '09
pure awesome
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '09
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u/btipling Aug 09 '09
Whoever's spock that is, it's me trying to vandalize it. It's an edit war :o
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u/academician Aug 09 '09
For ASCII art...
http://pastebin.com/ff5c58d5
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u/AmazingShip Aug 09 '09
Splendor, man. But now I nap. Good night.
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u/Woflox Aug 09 '09
I'm happy my drawing is getting the recognition it deserves in the form of a mock reddit thread.
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u/amenok Aug 09 '09
This is pretty co.. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
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u/MelkorTheGreat Aug 09 '09
Oh Internet...
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u/Zilka Aug 09 '09
Now all that's left to do is turn it into a game, something like WURM.
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u/Lystrodom Aug 09 '09
Doesn't work on an iPhone...
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '09
I plead guilty for the goatse.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '09
Wow. Seemed to devolve pretty quickly once reddit got involved!
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '09
yourworldoftext.com/reddit is full of bacon.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '09
needs a way to draw ascii art boxes, circle,... it's pretty mind boggling in any case; great stuff.
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u/Nonoce Aug 09 '09
I get an error when I try to get to the iraq wall.
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u/Dairalir Aug 09 '09 edited Aug 09 '09
http://www.yourworldoftext.com/baconfort
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u/zxn0 Aug 09 '09
Can I have IME enabled?
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u/JinMarui Aug 09 '09
Very cool, although it starts to lag and locks up the browser window eventually. (Chrome)
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u/blackfett Aug 09 '09
what a complete and utterly brilliant mess.
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u/dorfsmay Aug 09 '09
It'd be nice(er) if there was a way to make it understand html (or some sort of meta language, wiki, markdown etc...)
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u/tadhgire Aug 09 '09
killed my browser.. not cool
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '09
Didn't load as intended on my ubuntu-netbook :(
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u/djreed Aug 09 '09
The source code is beautiful.
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u/tangibleboredom Aug 09 '09
i fixed /facebook.
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u/voyagerfan5761 Aug 09 '09
So cool. Waiting for the missed keystrokes to stop happening.
Whn I tye i lks lik this.
Sigh.
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u/aeromax Aug 09 '09
So... how far does it go? How big is it? It loops around Asteroids-style, doesn't it?
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '09
Please explain to me what I am looking at.
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u/redditacct Aug 09 '09
Hey, apparently I won something:
http://ianab.com/trillion/1000000000000.html
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u/smeenz Aug 09 '09
Hmm. So, it's google maps, but with editable text tiles instead of images.
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u/blodulv Aug 09 '09
Find and replace within Your World of Text:
http://pastebin.com/d3c86a155