Our World of Text
Our World of Text (OWOT or OWoT) is a website that lets users type text anywhere on a grid. Users can choose the color of their text and visit other pages known as "worlds." In OWOT, all users start on the main page and see other worlds by adding the name of the world to the end of the URL after a slash, or by clicking a link in the Center Console or anywhere else on the main page.
OWOT was first launched on June 8, 2010, by the developer and creator of Your World of Text.[1] It was created as an alternative to Your World of Text that allows unrestricted scripting. In early August 2015, it was announced that OWOT would shut down on August 20th due to funding issues. Weeks after its original shutdown, control of the domain was handed to InfraRaven to start a revival of OWOT. The revival was based on the heavily modified YWOT source code from 2010 and featured a new menu design and a loading screen.
In 2016, a new version of OWOT was launched, which allowed users to change the size of their text and chat with users anywhere in the world. The sidebar menu to the left included options such as text color, text size, and chatting. This version was developed in parallel under the "beta" subdomain. Subsequently, the revival shut down in late 2016 after a botched attempt to create a new client.
On October 8, 2017, a new version of OWOT launched. The website's backend was created in Node.js while the frontend used a modified copy of the Your World of Text client in its first few months. Our World of Text is currently maintained by a hobbyist computer programmer going by the online alias of FP.
On February 25, 2023, OWOT became open source to allow other people to run their own instances of Our World of Text.