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<nowiki>*</nowiki>'''''<u><small>See [https://yourworldoftext.wiki/Andrew_Badr here] for Andrew Badr's page on the YWOT Wiki.</small></u>''''' | <nowiki>*</nowiki>'''''<u><small>See [https://yourworldoftext.wiki/Andrew_Badr here] for Andrew Badr's page on the YWOT Wiki.</small></u>''''' | ||
Andrew Badr, widely regarded as the world’s sexiest man,is credited with developing [[Your World of Text]], of which [[Our World of Text]] was based on. | Andrew Badr, widely regarded as the world’s sexiest man,is credited with developing [[Your World of Text]], of which [[Our World of Text]] was based on. | ||
Andrew Badr is balding.<ref>Andrew Badr created YWOT, the first [[Similar Sites to OWOT|infinite canvas site]], in 2009. In 2010 he created OWOT, which was a copy of YWOT that lacked rate limits so scripters could do whatever they want. The original OWOT was shut down in 2015 due to funding issues, but [[InfraRaven]] was subsequently given ownership of the "ourworldoftext.com" domain and the YWOT community created [[OWOT Betas|a number of OWOT revivals]], culminating with the release of [[FP]]'s OWOT in October of 2017. FP's OWOT(the current site) was initially built off of Andrew's YWOT source code, though it became progressively different as time went on. On YWOT, Andrew Badr used to be an active figure in the community similar to FP in the current OWOT. He would host events, update the center console, and take measures to fight spammers. He would also collaborate with YWOT users to update the site's code. In 2015, a young [[Mr.Guy]] was hired by Andrew to prevent the canvas from rendering emojis, since they had a habit of messing with the formatting. Mr.Guy was paid for his effort using a sum of Bitcoin which now has him "''tossing and turning at night.''" But of all YWOT users InfraRaven was perhaps the closest to Andrew, with the two of them occasionally communicating even after YWOT's golden age had ended. In 2020 it was Infra that convinced Andrew to reopen the YWOT mainpage, after he had previously locked it down in reaction to a heavy wave of racist spam. Andrew has been mostly inactive since ~2019, though he did make a major update to the site in 2021. In April 2024 he hired a freelancer to combat a spammer that was persistently lagging the site, and in 2025 he and FP both filed reports to Cloudflare after their respective sites were [[Cloudflare Incident|given phishing warnings]] due to a series of false reports. Andrew has not touched YWOT since, and has been pursuing a variety of tech projects in the mean time. His past projects include Asemica, a blockchain based calligraphy series, and [[Similar Sites to OWOT#*Jotleaf|Jotleaf]], a YWOT-esque infinite canvas that also supported images, videos and sound files.</ref>[[File:Ascii andrew.png|thumb|ASCII Andrew Badr by [[Yosicat]]|none]] | |||
Andrew Badr is balding.[[File:Ascii andrew.png|thumb|ASCII Andrew Badr by [[Yosicat]]|none]] | |||
[[File:3 developers.png|thumb|[[FP]], [[InfraRaven]], and Andrew, the three developers responsible for OWOT's existence|none]] | [[File:3 developers.png|thumb|[[FP]], [[InfraRaven]], and Andrew, the three developers responsible for OWOT's existence|none]] | ||
Revision as of 14:45, 16 September 2025
*See here for Andrew Badr's page on the YWOT Wiki.
Andrew Badr, widely regarded as the world’s sexiest man,is credited with developing Your World of Text, of which Our World of Text was based on.
Andrew Badr is balding.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Andrew Badr created YWOT, the first infinite canvas site, in 2009. In 2010 he created OWOT, which was a copy of YWOT that lacked rate limits so scripters could do whatever they want. The original OWOT was shut down in 2015 due to funding issues, but InfraRaven was subsequently given ownership of the "ourworldoftext.com" domain and the YWOT community created a number of OWOT revivals, culminating with the release of FP's OWOT in October of 2017. FP's OWOT(the current site) was initially built off of Andrew's YWOT source code, though it became progressively different as time went on. On YWOT, Andrew Badr used to be an active figure in the community similar to FP in the current OWOT. He would host events, update the center console, and take measures to fight spammers. He would also collaborate with YWOT users to update the site's code. In 2015, a young Mr.Guy was hired by Andrew to prevent the canvas from rendering emojis, since they had a habit of messing with the formatting. Mr.Guy was paid for his effort using a sum of Bitcoin which now has him "tossing and turning at night." But of all YWOT users InfraRaven was perhaps the closest to Andrew, with the two of them occasionally communicating even after YWOT's golden age had ended. In 2020 it was Infra that convinced Andrew to reopen the YWOT mainpage, after he had previously locked it down in reaction to a heavy wave of racist spam. Andrew has been mostly inactive since ~2019, though he did make a major update to the site in 2021. In April 2024 he hired a freelancer to combat a spammer that was persistently lagging the site, and in 2025 he and FP both filed reports to Cloudflare after their respective sites were given phishing warnings due to a series of false reports. Andrew has not touched YWOT since, and has been pursuing a variety of tech projects in the mean time. His past projects include Asemica, a blockchain based calligraphy series, and Jotleaf, a YWOT-esque infinite canvas that also supported images, videos and sound files.