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

Some foreign names were NOT translated, and due to the limits of ASCII, vowels with umlauts have, according to custom, had an E added after them, i.e.

From The History of the Thirty Years' War by Schiller, Friedrich

Free E-texts, especially those written in plain "vanilla" ASCII, are in great demand among blind people—who can use special software to convert the text to sound—and by persons in remote areas or the third world.

From Email 101 by Goodwin, John

Users of the communications program Procomm Plus can buy a Viewdata module for conversion of Prestel videotex text to plain ASCII, i.e., plain text without imbedded special codes.

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd