Subworlds

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Subworlds(also known as subpages or text rooms) are accessed by adding text to the www.yourworldoftext.com URL. Their names can comprise of:

You can capitalize letters in a subworld's name, but only if you are the first one to visit it(Ex. /JLJLKSJLKJSLJS, /hELP.)

The names of subworlds/text rooms can be absurdly long, and as a result there can potentially be a near-infinite amount of worlds/rooms.

User-Owned Subworlds[edit | edit source]

World Settings

In the beginning, it was possible for users to claim subworlds. This allowed them to place uneditable text blocks on worlds they own(or make the entire page private). These worlds still exist today(Ex. /deathcloud, /notes, /ywothistory.)

This feature was removed in a later update, which instead allowed users to create worlds with a "~" in front of them. When an account is made, a subworld based on the username is automatically created(Ex. /~MichaelHawke/, /~VKerb/, /~fp/.) Additional subworlds can be created by adding to the URL of the initial world(Ex. /~MichaelHawke/StLatterton, /~VKerb/AltMain, /~fp/photographWorlds.)

World Settings[edit | edit source]

In addition to creating uneditable text blocks, users have a wide range of options in customizing these worlds, being able to:

  • Change text and background colors(for public, member and owner areas)
  • Change cursor colors(for owner and for guests)
  • Allow creation of links to URL's, or to coordinates on the world
  • Allow auto-scrolling
  • Allow pasting
  • Allow zooming in/out
  • Delete the world or clear it of text
  • Unclaim the world
  • Make it private or member exclusive
Menu for world owners

Menu[edit | edit source]

  • More utilities are found in the menus of userpages.
    • Go To: You can enter any coordinates of your choosing, and your cursor will automatically move to that location.
    • Create Link: You can create a green link on a character that will automatically take you to the specified coordinates.
    • Create Link URL: You can create a blue link on a character that can take you to any other subworld, or external website.
    • Make Owner Only: With this, you can create blocks that only you are able to edit, delete or write on. This is useful for preventing griefing.
    • Make Member Only: With this, you can create blocks that only registered members are able to edit, delete or write on. This is useful for preventing the most basic of spam from randoms.
    • Make an area public: This removes the protection blocks for either member-only or owner-only sections of your private page.
    • Default Area Protection: Gives default protection to an area.
    • Copy and Paste: A user page allows you to copy and paste without the use of scripts or macros. Simply copy something to your clipboard, and use CTRL+V and you will begin typing the requested paste automatically. Great for making large ascii arts.

Common Uses[edit | edit source]

Private pages are used for a variety of purposes. Some of these include personal journals / blogs, ascii dumps, links to other interesting subworlds, and more. Due to the amount of users who never visit more than a few times, there are far less user-owned subworlds than normal pages.

Lists Of Subworlds[edit | edit source]

An incomprehensive list of user-owned worlds can be found in Grady964's world directory.

A older list can be found at /~spacenut/comprehensive.

Lists of subworlds/text rooms have been created in the past with the use of spider scripts(Ex. https://pastebin.com/pXHtEBkm ).

Almost 2 million subworlds are being monitored by the owner of /~marxwasright.

Popular/Notable Subworlds[edit | edit source]

/forexample[edit | edit source]

Alternate mainpage.

/~public[edit | edit source]

Another alternate mainpage.

/~Help[edit | edit source]

Help page for tutorials and questions.

/msernst[edit | edit source]

A popular subworld from the early 2010s.

/chromeexperiments[edit | edit source]

Popular as a result of YWOT being advertised on Chrome Experiments.

/reddit[edit | edit source]

Popular as a result of YWOT being advertised on r/programming.

/vsauce[edit | edit source]

One of the biggest subworlds as a result of Vsauce's advertisement in 2011.

/~orson_welles/4chansports[edit | edit source]

A subworld that blew up on 4chan in 2012.

/~pedo.slaughterhouse[edit | edit source]

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YWOT Wiki[edit | edit source]

Now deleted.

Formerly a network of subworlds that served as a library for information on YWOT.

Subworld Bots[edit | edit source]

https://www.yourworldoftext.com/dksf

The messages "Sammich was here", "Mr. Guy was here too." and "Nate Higgers was here" have been pasted onto every world whose names are composed of one to four letters. The message "ASG was here" was pasted onto every world with one to three lettered names, though it has since been changed to "cum was here."

These messages remain widespread to this day, though many of them have been deleted though.

Communist banners and the *GOATSE* ASCII used to be pasted onto every world whose names were composed of a single letter/number. These were reinforced by scripts and would repair themselves on a regular basis.

Example of Communist Banner

Subworld Explorers[edit | edit source]

Several users have dedicated themselves to exploring the subworlds of YWOT.

Some of their names include:

Trivia[edit | edit source]

  • Subworlds are created when someone types an original name after the "youworldoftext.com/[...]" URL. An interesting quirk of this is that the first person to visit a URL gets to determine the capitalization of its letters(Ex. /JLJLKSJLKJSLJS, /hELP).
    • In order to test whether someone has visited a subworld before you, all you need to do is capitalize random letters in the URL. If the capitalization shows up on the tab, then it means that you have created an entirely new page that no one else has seen.
  • The maximum number of characters allowed in a subworld's name seems to be 4080 characters.
    • Adding any more characters beyond this limit will result in letters being deleted.
Example of a Subworld With the Longest Possible Name
https://www.yourworldoftext.com/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa