Filed under: Freeware, Social Software, Web
Your World of Text - a collaborative text editing experiment
I hesitate to call Your World of Text a Time Waster, though that might be all it's really good for. The concept of Your World of Text is that you are looking at an infinite grid of text that any anonymous user can edit. If you're thinking "Warning, warning Will Robinson!", then we're on the same wavelength. Beware -- if you visit this site, you're looking at the uncensored internet.
Users can click anywhere but in the center of the screen that loads when you first load the site and edit text. That first area is locked as it gives you a description of what you're looking at, as well as a list of other Your World of Text sub-sites.
Scrolling around a bit, the site seems to be full of ASCII art, random ramblings, and more than a few impromptu chat sessions. It's hard to see what the point of Your World of Text is, but like a train wreck, it's also hard to look away.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
