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Watch the World Cup in ASCII
Right up 1337 F337 57R337
By INQUIRER newsdesk: Dienstag 13 Juni 2006, 11:23
HAVING TROUBLE seeing the World Cup from your office due to the stubborn refusal of the BBC to broadcast video feeds over the web to outside the UK? Or maybe the concept of watching football offends your tech side?
Or maybe your boss hasn't got a TV licence.
Well, worry no more – some enterprising Austrian Über-geeks have solved the problem nicely by creating a Telnet stream with, believe it or not, live ASCII footage of matches being played.
Simply fire up a command prompt and type “telnet ascii-wm.net 2006” and you’ll find a live “video” stream from 10 minutes before kick-off (or should that be boot-up?).
Clearly this is what the internet was invented for! We look forward to a version of Wimbledon that resembles Pong. µ
L’Inq
http://ascii-wm.net/
Quelle: The Inquirer
Wer braucht schon Grossleinwände oder HDTV, wenn er die WM auch live in ASCII-Art bewundern kann.
Die "Ausstrahlung" müsste 10 Minuten vor Anstoss beginnen.
Wenn man Telnet nicht deaktiviert hat oder dessen Port von der Firewall blockiert wird, dann müsste funzen.
telnet ascii-wm.net 2006
Trying 213.129.247.65...
telnet: connect to address 213.129.247.65: Connection timed out
Leider scheinbar gibt es doch zu viele Arbeitnehmer mit Internetanschluss. O_o