Monday, February 15, 2010

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)


The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a system of computer character encoding that is based on the American Alphabet. They represent text in computers and other devices that involve text. Work on this system began in October of 1960 and there are 128 characters. 94 that are printable, 33 that are not, and Spacing. It was the most used Computer system for character encoding until 2008 when it was surpassed by another system known as UFT-8.

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