{"id":68,"date":"2006-06-16T18:06:48","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritoffootball.com\/2006\/blog\/2006\/06\/16\/the-world-cup-in-ascii"},"modified":"2010-01-18T23:35:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T23:35:55","slug":"the-world-cup-in-ascii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/blog\/2006\/06\/16\/the-world-cup-in-ascii\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Cup in ASCII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Warning: this post is not intended for the technically-challenged!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I just can&#8217;t resist posting this &#8212; even though I haven&#8217;t been able to see the stream itself &#8212; but it really does promise to be what it says on the <strike>tin<\/strike> <a href=\"http:\/\/ascii-wm.net\">homepage<\/a>: &#8220;The best, most ridiculous, most redundant graphical implementation of ASCII!&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>A screenshot of World Cup action in ASCII (from <a href=\"http:\/\/mir.aculo.us\/articles\/2006\/06\/16\/ascii-world-cup\">mir.aculo.us<\/a>, now sadly deleted)<\/p>\n<p>Yes, now even the hardened of geeks can follow the action direct in their terminal application. One small problem, however, is that it seems to have been rather too popular:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As you may have noticed, we are completely overloaded at the moment&#8230; we already served more than a million telnet-connections and more than a terabyte of data. This is a free, non-profit for-the-fun-of-it project. However server upgrade and mirroring solution are in preparation. so stay tuned and thanks for the fish and the patience (you could play some football yourself while waiting :)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to follow that wise advice &#8212; shut down the computer, get myself outside and <strong>play some football!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: this post is not intended for the technically-challenged! Okay, I just can&#8217;t resist posting this &#8212; even though I haven&#8217;t been able to see the stream itself &#8212; but it really does promise to be what it says on the tin homepage: &#8220;The best, most ridiculous, most redundant graphical implementation of ASCII!&#8221;: A screenshot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-germany"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}