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 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

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

You can submit it, but the Posting Team will then consider whether we should also make an ASCII, or perhaps ISO-8859 or Unicode version of it.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim