we were online

About

we were online is an online multiplayer world—part game, artwork, and tool—that turns the existing Internet into a living, shared world, actively shaped by its inhabitants. Contribute your browsing data to a collective portrait of the Internet and create your own Internet self-portraits.

Cursor trails, keypresses and clicks, scroll patterns, and navigation rhythms, time on pages come to life on the pages you visit and show you how long you've spent on each page.

What it collects (all configurable):
  - Cursor movement, clicks, and holds
  - Scroll and viewport changes
  - Page navigation (screen time)
  - Keyboard rhythm

What you can do:
  - View per-site "internet portraits" that visualize your browsing as trail art
  - Choose three privacy levels: off, local-only, or shared
  - Configure exactly which data types are collected

See other people (still in development):
- On Wikipedia, see others on the same article, chat with them live, watch links grow patina, and follow other cursors down rabbit holes. See it in action https://www.instagram.com/p/DYpRnRAORbE/

Data Collection Policies:
You choose what is collected and where your data goes, on your device or shared for the purposes of the art project.