Monday, June 17. 2013
Monday, June 17, 1963: ASCII
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: @
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