back in the early days of internet go, I wrote a client for the ascii protocol that used '*' and 'o' for stones, and used it for a few years on an actual vt100.

back in the early days of internet go, I wrote a client for the ascii protocol that used '*' and 'o' for stones, and used it for a few years on an actual vt100. not super weird, but it really took a lot less work than any of the alternatives and worked great.