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ASCII

Page history last edited by Jim 17 years, 8 months ago

Text:

Transmission, by Hari Kunzru: "And so Leela found herself bewitched...cursed to dance on until her feet bled or the screen froze in messy blooms of ASCII text" (4).

 

Explanation:

Pronounced ask-ee, ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) uses 7-bit code to represent characters (such as %) or letters in number form. It is the most common format for text files on computers, and it allows for a universal character set that computers can "understand." Essentially, ASCII acts as a way of translating certain aspects of human language into computer language.

 

Suggestions for further reading:

The ASCII Chart: http://www.lookuptables.com/

 

ASCII Art:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art

http://www.chris.com/ASCII/

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