Watch the World Cup in ASCII

This is one for all you unix nerds. If you love your soccer/football and ASCII graphics, you’re going to love this.

Just type this into your favourite shell terminal 10 mins before a World Cup match and voila! watch the entire game LIVE in glorious ASCII:

“telnet diego.ascii-wm.net 2006″

ascii soccer

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