ASCII: Converting Symbols to Binary
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) was an early standardized encoding system for text.
ASCII’s library includes every upper-case and lower-case letter in the Latin alphabet, every digit from 0 to 9, and some symbols (like /, !, and ?). It assigns each of these characters a unique three-digit code and a unique byte.
But ASCII is so limited, it gives us 256 different bytes, or 256 ways to represent a character. When ASCII was introduced in 1960, this was okay, since developers needed only 128 bytes to represent all the English characters and symbols they needed.
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