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

We are deeply indebted to the Library of Congress for preparing, posting, and freely distributing this as Plain Vanilla ASCII.

From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress

Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide!

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

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