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Osman Salih L6H ASCII ASCII is not art. It's a code, a way of hiding things within a smaller thing. ASCII, the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII, was born at the dawn of the modern computer age (1958-1965). Character codes are a form of information compression, to accommodate the extreme lack of bandwidth available in paper, ink, or the tapping armature of a telegraph. The concept of characters and character-codes in ASCII is utterly inseparable from our Western, roman alphabet culture. You need the "one time pad" of Western culture to understand it or make use of it at all. Background The history of electrical or electronic communications really means the history of serial communications. Serial means a symbol at a time, one after the other, in an agreed-upon sequence. The concept isn't random, it doesn't seems to be in the human language. Words are spoken one at a time, words...

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