Watching The 2006 World Cup In ASCII!
The nice people at the Institute for Posttayloristic Studies in Austria have come up with an interesting(?) work around for people who want to watch the world cup but only have access to telnet. A stream of the World Cup in ASCII!
At times there were closeups of some players, here’s one of Radoslaw Sobolewski of Poland (during the Germany Vs Poland match)
But unfortunately, for most part of the game, the match looked like this, (see below)
I’m not sure about others, but 90 minutes of this, 3 times a night, for 30 days, is a sure way to be affected by scroll blindness! There are many other alternatives out there for those without live coverage on TV, one being
However, if you are still keen to give it a try, tomorrow night (early morning actually:)) you can telnet ascii-wm.net 2006. On Windows, you can just key this in cmd (Press ‘Windows-Key’-'R’, type ‘cmd’ and ENTER). The ASCII stream is made available 10 minutes after the start of each match.
mediumgeek Said,
June 15, 2006 @ 3:46 pm
Now that ASCII is bound to mess up your head:-).
Another alternative (yes now I am advertising a little) is Opera Mini on your phone. Works on almost all Java enabled phones:-)
http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/campaign/goal/