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ASCII World Cup

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gooooooaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllll dept.

Richard writes to tell us that the web is bringing you the next step up from watching those world cup matches in high-def. As the self-proclaimed "best, most ridiculous, most redundant graphical implementation of ASCII", ascii-wm.net brings you the 2006 World Cup live via your telnet window.

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  1. Back in my day..... by rueger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You know it strikes me that probably 90% of the Internet audience these days would have no clue what ASCII is, much less how to telnet into the server.

    On one hand, that's slightly sad - I remember being able to type faster on a C-64 than the modem could transmit - on the other it's amazing how far technology has come in only a decade.

    My other thought is to ask the likelihood that FIFA will shut them down as an infringing activity.

    --
    Three Squirrels
  2. Re:Won't work by Nuskrad · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just tried about 10 times in the space of a minute and managed to connect

  3. Re:Won't start until 10 minutes before game. by mmontour · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I tried earlier during match time only to be told it'd maxed out on connections.

    This is Slashdot. Surely somebody here can whip up a network of mirrors in time for tomorrow's game...

    ("netcat ascii-wm.net 2006 | netcat -u 224.0.0.1 5555" to bridge it to a local multicast stream, an inetd-launched daemon to handle client connections, round-robin DNS for load balancing, etc.)

  4. Better than I thought it would be by necronom426 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I tried it yesterday. When I first connected I had an ASCII plan view of a football pitch, so I was expecting an "O" to appear for the ball and move about during the game.

    It wasn't that at all. It was the live picture converted to ASCII. It was impossible to see what was going on when it had a wide shot of the field (i.e. most of the time), but when it cut to a close up, you could quite easily make out the people moving around. You could also see the on-screen captions appear.

    Totally useless, but brilliant in a geeky way :-)

    BTW, games start at 14:00, 17:00 and 20:00 BST (I'll let you convert that to your own time).

  5. Re:DICOM Part 10 image viewer - in ASCII by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    There is an even easier way: aalib.