I've just published a new userscript that remembers the path of your cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, averaging and wearing them into the page, showing your browsing history over time
Install it at: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/565058-desire-paths-for-wikipedia
Or read more about it at https://everest-pipkin.com/#projects/desirepaths.html
This little project came out of conversation with Kate Compton
and Christina Cuneo during last summer's sfpc class "The Browser is Already a Game Engine" where we were thinking a lot about the playful affordances already present in web browsers.
I also made a version that ran live in @pankegallery for the duration of Hostile Platforms / Beloved Margins last October which was a real joy because you got to pick up and further a collective path, just like a real desire path in a public place.
I've had desire paths running quietly in the background of the my browser over the last 6~ months and it's been a small but consistent joy to stumble onto a page in the middle of the night and find not just old purple links, but also the weird wandering path of mouse hovers and previews and almost-clicks that I once followed. Just waiting there for me
