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

A number of characters used in the notes to describe pronunciation do not exist in ASCII.

From Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study by Conover, W. F.

ASCII, pronounced "ask-key," is the common code for microcomputer equipment.

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd

The accented characters of several European languages and characters of some other languages were taken into account from 1986 onwards with 8-bit variants of ASCII, also called extended ASCII, that provided sets of 256 characters.

From The eBook is 40 (1971-2011) by Lebert, Marie