Neat. One of the hack ideas that I never got around to implementing was back in 2000 at the uni, when we had a bunch of 386SX's running in text mode as email te

Neat. One of the hack ideas that I never got around to implementing was back in 2000 at the uni, when we had a bunch of 386SX's running in text mode as email terminals: pipe a video (e.g. a TV stream) through aalib on a fast server, and stream the resulting ASCII sequence, cleverly compressed, to the terminals. The tricky part would be to cope with latency well enough to avoid jerky playback (telnet wouldn't cut it).