Uses of ASCII

Author: Priyanka Ghosh

It was first employed commercially during the time in 1963 as a 7-bit teleprinter code for American Telephone. It was Bob Bemer who introduced features like the escape sequence. His colleague from Britain, Hugh McGregor Ross assisted him in popularizing this work – according to Bemer, "so much so that the code that later went by the name of ASCII was initially called the Bemer–Ross Code in Europe". Because of his excessive work in this regard, Bemer has been famously called "the father of ASCII".

ASCII was the most used character encoding program on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when UTF-8 encoding overthrew it.

When it comes to computers, ASCII stands in the middle between the operator and the machine. Computers assign their binary operations with particular ASCII codes which they read as text.

There is no direct method by which computers can process text except through the correspondence between binary operations and ASCII. 

This is where our ASCII converter comes in handy, computer engineers often use it to convert text to ASCII. The reasons are wide-ranging. They can use it to test their hardware by directly feeding their machines ASCII to see if they process correctly or not. 


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