The Villa was a groundbreaking real-time multi-user dungeon delivered via the telephone creating an audible virtual environment where people could “move” around and interact just by typing on the phone’s keypad (DTMF). The system was running from 1994 to 2001 when the project ended.

The code has been rewritten by one of the original authors and a new system called Alphaville has been created that is now attached to the 22C3’s phone network. Just dial 98 to get in. This time, the virtual space is modelled after the 22C3 building. Check out the description on the wiki for additional …

Capture The Flag is a hacker contest running right now. Eight teams of hackers battle against each other in a fight of supremacy in a network full of vulnerable services. The teams’ task is to defend a server while simultaneously attacking the other teams’ servers. You can watch the contest at room 4 in the basement.

If you have no clue about where to go on Sylvester, read this: One of the main suggestions for friends of electronic-music-parties are the Pyonen. Their Silvester-Party takes place in the Görlitzer Park and presents finest electronic DJs like Der Dritte Raum, Sven Dohse and Whatyes on three floors.

On Thursday night, a party with some electronic music takes place at c-base. It’s a crashed spaceship in Berlin-Mitte containing aliens, artists and nerds. It’s just some hundred meters away (Rungestr. 48).

There is an Eventphone Phonebook search plugin for Firefox available at www.eventphone.de/firefox.php. It allows you to use the search-field for looking up DECT-Phone numbers.

We have about 16 GBit/s Upstream, provided by multiple upstreams – and our peaks are not even reaching one GBit. It really is a shame – so please, use our bandwidth, it is intended to be used.
Useful purposes are strongly preferred (read: no DDOS bullshit or spamming ;)), so for example seeding the Wikipedia DVD might be a really good idea. If you have another cool idea to use more bandwidth, place it here in the comments.

If you have some pegs or clothespin (Wäscheklammer) at home, please bring them to the event. The Peg-DHCP system needs some more – and there aren’t anymore to by at Alexanderplatz. Please leave them at the NOC-Helpdesk in the hackcenter or the C-Ring.

There is an open discussion at midnight at the Wau Holland Stiftung about.

The timeline of fukamis and Markus Beckedahls lecture about the Rootkit, which Sony included in its music CDs, is now available online on netzpolitik.org.

According to the German Weather Service (DWD), there is a storm warning overnight and tomorrow concerning Berlin and Brandenburg. Until tomorrow afternoon, there will be black ice, cold air and up to 20 cm (8”) snowfall – starting tonight.

Don’t forget about putting your tennis rackets at your shoes.

Lightning Talks are concept which was introduced at 21C3. You can quickly show up your project and raise attention for it.

The Lightning Talks are 5-minute talks by various people combined in a set of 10 talks in one hour. We do a set each day in Saal 4 at four o’clock. The set for tomorrow is intended to be used by ideas for Lighting Talks which spring up on the congress.

So now is your chance to register a Lighting Talk at the wiki page.

What has changed in more than 20 years on this event? You can get a little idea about that while looking at the invitation to the first congress in 1984. A hole Datenschleuder was used for this.