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

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.

If this is your intention, make sure that text is sent to you in plain ASCII, or TTY mode.

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd

This text comes over a little odd in ASCII.

From The Cyberpunk Fakebook by St. Jude