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

If stripping the accents would unacceptably degrade the book, then submit two versions, one "8-bit" with the accents included and one "7-bit" plain ASCII, and we will post both.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim

DP Europe supports Unicode instead of ASCII, to be able to proofread ebooks in numerous languages.

From The Internet and Languages [around the year 2000] 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.