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FrogFind's "Catch of the Day": Search Engine in Inception Mode! (Garry's Mod) 🎮🖥️

Hey Retro Fans!

Today we have a Catch of the Day that literally takes us into virtual worlds. Around 5:22 PM, a user agent popped up in our server logs that made us do a double-take:

🏆 Steam Client 1.0 on Garry's Mod 13 (Valve/Steam HTTP Client 1.0 GMod/13)

What exactly happened here?
For those who don't know: Garry's Mod (GMod) is a legendary sandbox game by Valve, built on the Half-Life 2 engine. Players can build pretty much anything the physics engine allows.

Over the years, the modding community created addons (like Wiremod or Media Player/Web Browser) that allow you to spawn fully functional, virtual computer monitors on the walls of the game world. So this afternoon, someone literally spawned a virtual monitor in their game, stood in front of it with their virtual character, opened the in-game browser, and surfed onto FrogFind!

We absolutely love the idea of someone standing in a virtual warehouse, using an in-game screen to search for text-based web content. FrogFind truly works everywhere – even in "Inception" mode! 🤯

Your FrogFind Team 🐸