ASCII - Character encoding

ASCII, aka American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding created in 1963.

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ASCII ( ( listen) ASS-kee), abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many additional characters. Read more on Wikipedia...

ASCII Wikipedia page
ASCII first developed in American National Standards Institute
See also: (10 related languages)Punched tape, C, vi, Multics, Unix, FTP, UTF-8, Unicode, Java, Perl

Example from Wikipedia:

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~