ASCII world cup

Saturday 10 June 2006This is more than 18 years old. Be careful.

From the technically-amazing-but-why-would-I-want-that department: The World Cup, live, in ASCII art. You can use telnet to get a live stream of ASCII art of the World Cup games:

$ telnet ascii-wm.net 2006

Of course, most soccer coverage involves long shots of a large field with small people on it, which doesn’t translate well to ASCII art. Here’s a pretty good picture of a single player moving the ball ($RO) left:

TRINIDAD & T. - SCHWEDEN                                                     0:0


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Comments

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On technically-amazing, I wouldn't score it too high. I think most of these ASCII "art" endeavors are basically XPMs sans header. Although this one does get points for using telnet!

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