ASCII was developed in part from telegraph code. Its first commercial use was in the Teletype Model 33 and the Teletype Model 35 as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services. Work on … See more

Bit width
The X3.2 subcommittee designed ASCII based on the earlier teleprinter encoding systems. Like other See more

ASCII was first used commercially during 1963 as a seven-bit teleprinter code for American Telephone & Telegraph's TWX (TeletypeWriter eXchange) network. TWX originally used the earlier five-bit ITA2, which was also used by the competing Telex See more

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) was developed under the auspices of a committee of the … See more

Control characters
ASCII reserves the first 32 code points (numbers 0–31 decimal) and the last one (number 127 decimal) for control characters See more

As computer technology spread throughout the world, different standards bodies and corporations developed many variations of ASCII … See more

• 3568 ASCII – an asteroid named after the character encoding
• Alt codes – Method for entering characters into a computer See more