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:
(via The Register)
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It’s been fellowship’d
Trying 213.129.247.65…
.. try later
Connected to ascii-wm.net.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
too many connections
Connection closed by foreign host.
lol
lol yep! i guess brazil vs. croatia should be a great ascii match!
just keep trying
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.