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Mark Davis, one of Unicode’s creators, attributes the lag to two things: Most pages were produced in a single language in the early days of the Web, and the available development software tended to rely on different encoding systems, such as ASCII.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2012
For 24 hours from Tuesday to Wednesday afternoon this week, Barbie played in the ASCII Theater.
—Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2024
For its latest project, ASCII Theater, the group will broadcast a popular new film daily in ASCII format that anyone can watch for free.
—Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 30 Jan. 2024
Meanwhile, users like reporter Alex Goldman have already begun mourning the impending loss of beloved bots, including bots that tweet everything from Boggle games to randomly generated ASCII night skies.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
First Known Use
1963, in the meaning defined above
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“ASCII.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ASCII. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
ASCII
noun
: a computer code for expressing numerals, letters of the alphabet, and other symbols
Etymology
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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