ASCII
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The meme suggests ASCII, a method of rendering characters using either seven or eight binary digits.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2013
Baudot’s code developed the principle that eventually became the basis for ASCII, or the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, which is the way in which nearly every computer and phone now represents text.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2012
Ten years later, in 2008, 50% of all the documents available on the internet were encoded in Unicode, with the other 50% encoded in ASCII.
From A Short History of EBooks by Lebert, Marie
But as it happened, Teletype had to use a lot of persuasion just to keep ASCII, and the Model 33 keyboard, from looking like this instead: !
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
Whether digitized years ago or now, all Project Gutenberg books are created in 7-bit plain ASCII, called Plain Vanilla ASCII.
From The Internet and Languages [around the year 2000] by Lebert, Marie
