There is no standard that says keyboards must map to something and it's up to the OS to interpret what each keycode means. The keycode sent out for the "Z" key on US English QWERTY style layouts may ...

Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

THE notion of assigning specific number values to letters dates back as least as far as 700 BC. According to an inscription from his reign, Sargon II, an Assyrian king, built a perimeter wall around ...

'ASCII art ', which reproduces photographs and illustrations by combining letters and symbols, is one of the cultures that is inseparable from the history of the Internet, especially the Japanese ...

ASCII art holds a place near and dear to our hearts. If you were fortunate enough to get started in computers before there was such a thing as a graphical user interface (GUI) then you remember ...

Modern ASCII art refers to text art in general, but was originally used by the English community as an expression using the characters and symbols contained in ASCII character codes. The surprisingly ...

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The book, “The Martian” by Andy Weir demonstrates jaw-dropping science and engineering principles, which makes it one of the best pure sci-fi novels of the year ...

Many were amazed in 1999 when the Wachowski Brothers released "The Matrix" featuring Keanu Reeves as Neo, who found himself living in a virtual world where humans must fight sentient machines. It ...