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

In ASCII, the letter "A" is stored as 01000001, whether the computer is made by IBM, Apple or Commodore.

From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation

Due to the technical limitations of ASCII, accents were not included in the text.

From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle

In 2008, 50% of available documents on the internet were encoded in Unicode, with the other 50% encoded in ASCII.

From The Internet and Languages [around the year 2000] by Lebert, Marie