Watch the World Cup in ASCII

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/