from Hacker News

Worms are URLs which are allowed to pop from any text software into any other process beyond the browser. It captures the screen and extracts worm links.

Method:

- Continually printscreen

- OCR from the capture

- Process wormholes

- Only allow specific worms/URL types to run automatically (for security) - this is URL typing

Example: allow "imgur" worms to auto-display pictures hosted from imgur, as a display notification, or ideally (with a compatible browser's plugin) insert into the page where the worm text is situated.

It would look like this: worm://image/imgur/arg1-arg2-...-argn

That can only extract image type, and only images from imgur sources. This is type-safe, and you'll see the notification-image in whatever app you happened to display that text, even inside a 3D app or videogame. It is app-agnostic hypertext links.

How to make it happen right now for increased business productivity:

- use something like Capture2text to OCR printed-screen into copypaste (this is the hard part)

- extract worm links from the copypasted every X seconds using any programming language

- process those links one by one, example: display a picture on the bottom-right corner of the display, using the imgur worm link, without having to click it.

I understand there were security issues but as the years go by and security progresses, this could be useful.