Cursor Party is a one-line script that gives every visitor to your webpage their own cursor, country flag, and chatbox.
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As far as I’m aware, Google Docs was the first to implement this
I remember commenting, likely around 2016 about the use of Hypothes.is' counter on their bookmarklet to indicate the number of annotations on a particular page. This is a more passive sort of indicator of presence.
I used to get a little thrill to see people who'd either been there at the same time, or just before me.
It's also reminiscent of Vannevar Bush's "associative trails" in As We May Think (The Atlantic, 1945).
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Our current digital attempt at this is multiplayer cursors and selection. Other people who have access to your file are visible in the interface as small, pointy, colourful cursors or text markers within a document, canvas, or spreadsheet. Sometimes with little names or floating profile pictures next to them to help identify people. As far as I’m aware, Google Docs was the first to implement this
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