# Cursor Park Cursor Park, also called a Cursor Parking Lot, is a block of ASCII art placed inside a Google Docs page where collaborators can park their mouse cursors when they are not actively editing. Twitter user @alindeman coined the concept in May 2019 with a 'cursor park and nature preserve,' and the idea went viral in July 2021 after a tweet by @ahl drew over 119,000 likes. By late 2022, Lenovo and Google produced TikTok explainers of their own that reached millions of views. ## Origin On May 16th, 2019, Twitter user @alindeman posted an image labeled 'cursor park and nature preserve,' which showed a boxed-off area at the top of a Google Doc for collaborators to leave their cursors[1]. The tweet drew replies from others sharing their own designs, including designer @jenniferdaniel, who posted an ocean-themed version and shared a Google Doc full of pre-made templates for anyone to copy and paste[2]. The original 2019 tweet was later deleted but survives in a Wayback Machine capture[1]. - **Platform:** Twitter (2019 origin) / TikTok (2022 viral spread) - **Creator:** @alindeman - **Date:** 2019 ## Overview The lot is defined by a frame drawn from keyboard characters, usually a rectangle but sometimes a more detailed scene such as a nature preserve, a zoo, a picnic area or a cafe[6]. On a shared Google Doc every active collaborator shows up as a floating cursor labeled with their initials, so clustering those cursors inside a drawn boundary signals that the editor is idle rather than typing somewhere in the body text[3]. Elaborate designs are part of the appeal: @jenniferdaniel's ocean-themed version included fish and seaweed, and later variants added benches, trees and numbered parking spaces for individual users[2]. ## How to Use Making a cursor park means pasting a block of ASCII art, usually a bordered rectangle, somewhere near the top or bottom of a shared Google Doc[6]. Collaborators who are not actively editing drag their cursor icons inside the frame so they do not float over live text[3]. Common conventions include labeling the lot with signage, numbering the spaces, or dressing the design up as a scene such as a cafe, a zoo or a picnic area[8]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Cursor Park? Cursor Park is a decorative area drawn from keyboard characters inside a Google Doc where idle collaborators can leave their mouse cursors instead of hovering over the body text[3]. ### Where did Cursor Park come from? Twitter user @alindeman posted the earliest known cursor park on May 16, 2019, calling it a 'cursor park and nature preserve'[1]. ### What does Cursor Park mean? The term describes a holding area inside a shared Google Doc for cursors belonging to people who are watching the document but not typing in it[5]. ### How do you use Cursor Park? Paste an ASCII block into a shared Doc and ask idle collaborators to drag their named cursors inside the drawn boundary[3]. Pre-made templates are available on coda.io[10]. ### Is Cursor Park still popular? The format peaked in late 2022 after viral TikToks from Lenovo and Google, with the Google clip reaching 11.5 million views[8]. ## References 1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190606193115/https://twitter.com/alindeman/status/1126939906268389379]() 2. [https://twitter.com/jenniferdaniel/status/1129156582674055168?lang=en]() 3. [https://twitter.com/ahl/status/1420886709974097921?lang=ca]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/oxk523/cursor_parking_lot/]() 5. [https://twitter.com/_inundata/status/1578107934671716355]() 6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cursor-park]() 7. [https://www.tiktok.com/@lenovo/video/7153689930823126314]() 8. [https://www.tiktok.com/@google/video/7161537050276039979]() 9. [https://www.tiktok.com/@ochemlover/video/7183056385339313450]() 10. [https://coda.io/@sohan/cursor-park]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/cursor-park Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library