Standard ASCII

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character encoding standard that assigns numerical values to specific characters, such as letters, numbers, and symbols. It was developed in the 1960s and became widely used as a standard for exchanging data between computers. ASCII defines a set of 128 characters, including the 26 upper and lowercase letters of the English alphabet, numerals, punctuation marks, and various control characters. ASCII is still widely used today, particularly in text-based communication and data exchange. However, it has largely been superseded by Unicode, which provides a much larger character set and better support for international languages.