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== Other Canvas Sites ==

=== Written World ===

[https://yourworldoftext.wiki/Written_World Written World] was a 2011 YWOT clone whose canvas used a real world street map for its background. In addition to basic YWOT features, users were able to change their text colors along with the direction they typed in(''i.e. you could set it so that you typed downwards or backwards by default''). And in order to "encourage positive engagement," the creator also implemented a set of animations for typing and deleting text. The site also had an "echoing" feature that was "analogous to upvoting", and would allow users to "add permanence" to content they thought was good.

Written World's main gimmick was the fact that it took place on a real world street map, with each user spawning in at their IRL locations on the map. Using the UI players could see all the users active in their proximity.

The site was created by Zack Shwartz as his thesis [https://itp.nyu.edu/itp/ ITP]. Its central idea was previously conceived during a group project for [[wikipedia:Clay_Shirky|Clay Shirky's]] Designing Conversational Spaces class.

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=== Walloftext.co ===

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=== [[Jan soweli Asike]]'s Instance ===

'''''<small>*See also [[Jan soweli Asike#Custom OWOT client]].</small>'''''

== References ==

[[Category:History]]

[[Category:Your World of Text]]

[[Category:Our World of Pixels]]