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

Ten years later, in 2008, 50% of all the documents available on the internet were encoded in Unicode, with the other 50% encoded in ASCII.

From A Short History of EBooks by Lebert, Marie

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

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