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

ASCII, pronounced "ask-key," is the common code for microcomputer equipment.

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd

Complex page formats occasionally fail to columnate properly, which entails rescanning as though one were working with a single column, entering the ASCII, and decolumnating for better searching.

From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress

For practical purposes, 7-bit texts are plain ASCII; 8-bit texts have accented letters.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim