World's First International Sporting Contest Via The Internet

by Steve Dimond - croquet.com

World's First International Sporting Contest Via The Internet
Friday Jun. 19, 1998.

Croquet Canada
Vancouver, Canada
WHERE TO CONNECT



LIVE Pre-Game on RealVideo : 3:30 pm Pacific Time

GAME TIME : 4:00 pm Pacific Time, 7 pm Eastern
Friday, June 19th (Vancouver, Canada)
= 9:00 am (Sydney, Australia), Saturday, June 20th


Later game between Steve Mulliner and Peter Olsen at :
3:00 pm (Sydney, Australia), Saturday, June 20th
= 06:00 am London, England, Saturday, June 20th
= 10:00 pm Vancouver, Canada, Friday, June 19th

SIZE="+1" FACE="arial,helvetica">Click for Computer Equipment and Software Requirments

For the Vancouver-Sydney leg of this ground breaking event, you will need RealPlayer and NetMeeting (Obtained freely off the net... follow the links below to download)

http://www.real.com/products/player/downloadrealplayer.html

and the video should be listed at

http://www.dentv.com/dtvfri.shtml

under mixed entertainment from 2100h (Universal time...)

The real video feed should be at :

http://www.dentv.com/denvideo.ram from 3:30 pm or so.

If you click above link, it should start netscape and them real player. You could also try to input that straight into real player...

Also, try downloading (free)

http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting/


which will be where we will be chatting.
It will either be on the server located at :


ils.four11.com
or
ils.business.four11.com

you'll see this in the netmeeting set up when you log on
Look for This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or a This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and attempt to join.

It takes some figuring out ....

Good luck .... !

Also, see http://www.croquet.com/ for updates.

Digital Camera (still) Photographs of the event in this directory during the event.