American Code For Information Interchange - ASCII
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Tech Geek stuff...ASCII is the industry standard language or “code” used to represent text in computer programming. Just as its predecessor, Morse Code, dealt in “dots and dashes," ASCII uses “binary” elements (0s and 1s) as its core “alphabet.”
The efficiency gains are obvious when considering “S.O.S.”, which is expressed in Morse code as as “dot, dot, dot, dash, dash, dash, dot, dot, dot." Meanwhile, it's “01010011, 01001111, 01010011” in binary, and simply “083, 079, 083” in ASCII code.
All of this knowledge will be useless during the impending robot revolution, though you might learn to say "I surrender" and "would you like more oil, sir?"
