Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A standard for assigning numerical values to the set of letters in the Roman alphabet and typographic characters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Computers) the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a code consisting of a set of 128 7-bit combinations used in digital computers internally, for display purposes, and for exchanging data between computers. It is very widely used, but because of the limited number of characters encoded must be supplemented or replaced by other codes for encoding special symbols or words in languages other than English. Also used attributively; -- .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- initialism computing
American Standard Code for Information Interchange .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Under ASCII, they list lots of pages on which the term ASCII appears, usually in the phrase ASCII format.
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Are you typing in ASCII numerics, or entering special characters from something other than the TP interface itself?
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Elsewhere we saw, of course, the mind-blowing Portal in ASCII video, the upcoming European debut of chiptune showcase Blip Festival, watched German TV pair up a games design vet and a new champion of art gaming for a lengthy discussion, fan-made Chrono Trigger T-shirts, and upcoming shirts for indie favorite Cave Story.
Boing Boing 2009
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Are you typing in ASCII numerics, or entering special characters from something other than the TP interface itself?
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Are you typing in ASCII numerics, or entering special characters from something other than the TP interface itself?
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Can you believe that they still do design in ASCII art?
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The age and sex profiles were not noted, although given the small amount of housewives and given that ASCII is a computer magazine, the respondent pool appears to be mostly male.
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People would chat, send dirty pictures made in ASCII text, chat some more.
Compstalgia: The Pain of Remembering Old Technology wendigomountain 2008
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Once the file is complete, save it as. htaccess and upload it to your server, via FTP in ASCII mode, where you store your HTML files.
Balkinization 2004
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Once the file is complete, save it as. htaccess and upload it to your server, via FTP in ASCII mode, where you store your HTML files.
Balkinization 2004
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