Watch world cup in ASCII

gerloff

Martedì, 13 Giugno 2006

What happens when geeks and football collide? Roughly, this. Michael Aschauer, a Vienna artist, is streaming the World Cup in ASCII via telnet. Here you go:

$telnet ascii-wm.net 2006

(via The Register)

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Commenti

just keep trying

gerloff

Mercoledì, 14 Giugno 2006

it took me some twenty minutes, but sometime during the first half of France-Switzerland, I finally got connected. It's a wonderfully minimalist experience, really worth the wait.

Even the tons of advertising are reduced to a few non-obtrusive characters.

lol

federico

Martedì, 13 Giugno 2006

lol yep! i guess brazil vs. croatia should be a great ascii match!

It's been fellowship'd :-)

ciaran

Martedì, 13 Giugno 2006

Trying 213.129.247.65...
Connected to ascii-wm.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
too many connections :) .. try later
Connection closed by foreign host.

Watch world cup in ASCII

Commenti

just keep trying

lol

It's been fellowship'd :-)

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