The second half of the ASCII character set (characters 128 through 255). Designed in the 1960s, ASCII was originally a 7-bit code (0 through 127). To accommodate foreign languages, the DOS code ...

How computers encode characters using 7-bit ASCII. ASCII uses seven bits close bit The smallest unit of data in computing represented by a 1 in binary., giving a character set of 128 characters.

Poets and novelists turn words into pictures. But on the Internet, the world-spanning computer network, a group of people is taking this idea a bit further. They are ASCII artists, devoted to takin… ...