Monday, June 17. 2013
Via The '60s at 50
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Associating
numbers with specific characters has proved necessary to allow
automated telegraph printers (teleprinters) and then computers to
represent text. The most widely used mapping between numbers and letters
was that approved on June 17, 1963, by the American Standards
Association. It is the American Standard Code for Information
Interchange, better known as ASCII. -- From "What is ASCII?" (The Economist, 2013). Full story: @ American Standards Association document (from www.wps.com): @ "1963: The debut of ASCII" (CNN, 1999): @ www.asciitable.com: @ www.ascii-code.com: @
Entry from www.cryptomuseum.com: @ Bob Bemer's website (Bemer helped create and standardize ASCII): @
* American National Standards Institute: @
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