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| screenshot = Ywot_2023.jpg

| caption = YWOT in 2023

| creator = [[Andrew Badr]]

| url = https://yourworldoftext.com

'''Your World of Text''' ('''YWOT''') is an [[Similar Sites to OWOT|infinite text canvas]] created by [[Andrew Badr]]. It is the predecessor to [[OWOT|Our World of Text]], and also the site where most users discovered OWOT.  

'''''<u><small>*See the YWOT Wiki's page for the MHZ [https://yourworldoftext.wiki/Man_Hating_Zone here].</small></u>'''''

[https://ourworldoftext.com/OWOTD/iceberg /OWOTD/iceberg] mentions that the MHZ have feuded with the [https://www.yourworldoftext.com/~michaelhawke/globalfaith Mormons] of old YWOT and witnessed the [https://github.com/ywothistory/ywothistory.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2012-12-30-modernages.markdown spammer vs eraser wars] of 2013. Their world, /manhatingzone, was supposedly the most active world in YWOT before it was privated.

File:Dense.jpg|A dense cluster of [https://yourworldoftext.wiki/Miscellaneous_Text handmade messages], no spam in sight

File:Ywot getting over it.png|In 2023, two users managed to replicate the entirety of ''Getting Over It'' in YWOT, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T186L5Gn-OY completely in ASCII form].

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File:Ywot paradise.png|The City of Paradise from the [https://yourworldoftext.wiki/North_Road_(2010_Archive) 2010 Archive], it exists at the same spot as the current day [https://yourworldoftext.wiki/Sky_City Sky City]  

* As stated in an interview with Andrew Badr, YWOT is believed to be the oldest infinite canvas on the internet.<ref>https://cultorjustweird.libsyn.com/s2e7-the-line</ref>

* Instead of a chat, YWOT used to have an active IRC featuring all the most active members of its community. Today, [[Sammich|Sammich's]] Wokecat is believed to be the successor of the IRC, and is still frequented by many of YWOT's old guards.  

* YWOT was featured in [https://elmcip.net/creative-work/your-world-text a digital poetry class from 2010] along with [https://stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2020/live/events/11/ an online social experiment from 2020], and was even used as someone's [https://www.yourworldoftext.com/~maritas college thesis] in 2024(''though it didn't seem to get anywhere''). It was also mentioned in a number of academic papers<ref>https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=yourworldoftext&oq=yourwor</ref><ref>https://www.sens-public.org/articles/1699/</ref>; the 2013 paper titled "''Quotationalism in Digital Literature''" had the following to say about the infinite text canvas:  

<blockquote>"''The idea of ​​the embodiment and realization of the open, interactive and fleeting text played a major role (especially for authors) in digital literature in the late 1990s and early 2000s. While some claimed the impossibility of open text, others (most) turned to implementing this idea, without any irony. One of the works that tries to implement open text is the website yourworldoftext, which designs a blank sheet that can be written on in all directions:'' 'Your World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any visitor. The changes made by other people appear on your screen as they happen.' T''he freedom that the endless page promises is clouded by the fact that the flow of writing still runs from left to right and therefore linearly. Furthermore, the fact that every visitor can write something on the page creates pubescent textual struggles and removes this text, at least temporarily, from the field of literature. Some note-taking projects attempt to create an ever-growing, rhizomatic web of text. This is what an entry on the association blaster platform, which has been growing since 1999 and is probably the most popular, says:'' 'This network is, proceeds as and builds a rhizome!' ''The authors Alvar Freude and Dragan Espenschied announced their work in 1999 as'' 'a new way of organizing information.' 'an encapsulated prototype of how the web could work: from the bottom up' ''and'' 'a connection between all kinds of views, languages, cultures and people that creates the ultimate, post-modern ambivalence - or a kind of in-between fact- Knowledge.' [...]"

'''- Barbara Marković, ''Quotationalism in Digital Literature'''''</blockquote>

== References ==

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