About
An Interesting Place began as an idea in December 2007. I was beginning my studies in HTML in high school at the time. I became fascinated with the power of the anchor tag and its ability to navigate between different web pages with just a few characters of script.
Using my basic HTML knowledge and my trusty skills in MSPaint, I was inspired to create The Wurld. The Wurld was a rudimentary interactive web site where the user would be given 3 - 5 different actions (anchor tags) to choose from and could interact with an environment based on the actions they chose (navigating them to a different web page). Their choices would enable a new set of actions and would allow the user to experience the same environment in a number of different ways.
Snapshot of The Wurld concept art
This is the philosophy that's remained with me and is present in An Interesting Place. I've also managed to keep and append to the same graphics. This site is user-experience oriented rather than service based. It may appear to be a gimmicky experiment to some, but I feel this is branching into an area of the web that caters to the user's need for enjoyment and discovery, to show that there are more possibilities than what there may seem.
As can be imagined, the Easter egg is widely celebrated on this site. I want to create an experience where users are rewarded for their curiousity and feel a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment when discovering something hidden, as this makes a given place interesting.