Watch YouTube in ASCII

by Matthew on July 1, 2007

ASCII Youtube
Warren Harding has designed a program that allows you to watch YouTube videos in ASCII text. It was a test to see if he could access youtube without a nice GUI. He literally created a program which has all the menus and you just choose the video you want to play and it converts it in to ASCII text right on screen.

The Operating System running this is Linux Fedora 6 and it uses a lynx based browser to search for the videos. Check out the video of it working after the jump.

Although I think this is a little bit of a crazy idea, it is still quite cool to see how someone can convert video in to ASCII with it actually looking almost real from a distance away from the screen.

Via: HackedGadgets



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University Update - Linux - Watch YouTube in ASCII
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1 JAM at 4:53 am

WOW!
I have got to try this out :D

JAM

2 Nicolas at 10:52 am

wow man, awesome!

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