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Cursor Camp is a wholesome no-chat online hangout spot

Boing Boing·Popkin·28 days ago
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Cursor Camp/neal.fun Cursor Camp is a wholesome little website where you and everyone else visiting appear as small cursors. There's no chat, no usernames, no profiles — you can only interact by moving around the screen and watching each other do the same. It's part of the neal.fun collection of quirky web experiments by developer Neal Agarwal. The more you explore, the more little gems you'll find. I came across a small tetherball pole that lets you click the ball to send it flying through the air. You can go for a swim, cross a bridge, and stumble across small interactive surprises scattered around the space. I like this idea of an online space where people can hang out without actually talking. There's a strange comfort in being surrounded by other live cursors, even though all you can do is move around the screen. You get the sense that there are real people on the other end of each pointer, doing exactly what you're doing — just poking around, seeing what's there.…

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