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Yeah definitely the inspiration. Some of the things I didn't like was the editing ability of text. If I made a typo I would have to rewrite it. Also colours!

The more the merrier! See also http://www.jotleaf.com/, a multimedia take on the same concept.

Your World of Text, for what it's worth, is still going strong. It gets a lot of traffic for an art project.

This is amazing. Just thought about this idea a few days ago and boom! It exists! Would love to see support to embed any html (think youtube videos) every text area stored as a file on dropbox, support for right to left...

YouTube embeds are supported

How do I do that?

Just paste a YouTube URL.

This pastes the link there, but doesn't embed it (i.e. no preview pic, etc).

hardly anything on the internet is "new". We're all just rehashing things that existed on the net in the 90s, doing them slightly better.

s/better/differently/

I wouldn't say all of the re-invention has been for the better.

Yeah agreed. Once a new fashion comes out, people feel the need to rewrite everything in that language/framework etc.

Imagine how much more productive we could be if we stopped reimplementing the wheel every time a new fashion comes around...

Also thefacebook.com circa 2005/2006