Representing invisible activities of data systems in a familiar and comprehensible manner can play vital role in understanding and troubleshooting digital systems - and heck, everybody loves PONG, right? Yup, even Apache web servers -
Logstalgia (aka ApachePong) replays or streams a standard website access log (eg access.log) as a retro arcade game-like simulation.
We would have also accepted - "Network/Server Tower Defense" - Logstalgia
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