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

In the "FAQ" they spoke about "plain vanilla ASCII", something I never had heard about in my life!

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim

The etexts, later called ebooks, were stored in the simplest way, using the low set of ASCII, called Plain Vanilla ASCII, for them to be read on any hardware and software.

From Project Gutenberg 4 July 1971 - 4 July 2011: Album by Lebert, Marie

It is also essential to know how to convert a file created with your word processing program into "ASCII" or "text" format, which will let you share your thoughts with others across the Net.

From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation