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

The etexts, later called ebooks, were stored in the simplest way, using the low set of ASCII, called Plain Vanilla ASCII, for them to be read on any hardware and software.

From Project Gutenberg 4 July 1971 - 4 July 2011: Album by Lebert, Marie

The English pound symbol cannot be expressed in ASCII, so 25 pounds is rendered as 25L.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

The British pound sign cannot be expressed in ASCII, but is very common in the works of English novelists.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim