ASCII was developed in part from telegraph code. Its first commercial use was in the Teletype Model 33 and the Teletype Model 35 … 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 … See more

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

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) was developed under the auspices of a committee of the American Standards Association (ASA), called the X3 committee, by its X3.2 (later X3L2) subcommittee, and … See more

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

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