When a random word selector gave Dahyun-hwan the word “diary”, she was immediately transported back to her elementary school days. Writing a diary was a regular task set as homework. It was cumbersome and not very fun,” she says. “So the day before I turn it in, I ‘bunch’ through a week’s worth of journals. ” Dahyun decided to design her web tool to match her childhood self. A journal that can be quickly adapted to create different stories by selecting random words from her drop-down menu. You can also use your mouse to scribble around the word. “It’s similar to her diary format that she used when she was a kid,” she explains. “I think it’s interesting that what was once analog has become digital and can be seen online.”
Another nostalgic project came true when Naree Shin got the word “kids” from a random selector. “I suddenly realized they had a lot of weather elements in their sketchbooks,” she says. Their spiky suns and scribbled clouds were far more interesting than the boring icons that tell the weather online, so she decided to use these drawings to create a weather tool. did. She coded four different weather pages (Clear, Clouds, Rain, Fog), drew animated children’s drawings, and linked the pages to the weather API. Prompt Type a city into her window and the current weather for that location pops up on the screen, attractively illustrated with small doodles.
Yunseo Go decided to take us back to the early 2000s, when “before emojis, text faces ruled the internet” in response to a prompt for the word “young.” I created a “expression conversion tool” using a web camera. This ingenious little device converts facial expressions picked up by her webcam into text faces using her ASCII code scheme. In real time, she can also see other users’ activities on Translator because she works over WebSockets, she adds Yunseo.
With 8 contributors producing different responses to random words every 2 weeks, the alphabetically organized website is a vibrant blend of pure, pure web-based originality and randomness. It’s becoming a network. The community, now using the letter ‘Q’ and nearing the end of the Alphabet Project, has begun drafting ideas for ‘more fun and effective’ ways to get their voice across the internet. , he says Yeoleum. “We believe the web space has endless possibilities for artistic expression,” she concludes heartily. “As long as you have access to the Internet, you can access the world without restriction or discrimination.”
