Four Column ASCII (2017)(garbagecollected.org)
320 points by tempodox | 76 comments
A 2017 blog post presenting the ASCII table in four columns of 32 to explain control characters, such as why Ctrl+[ produces escape.
#ascii on Hacker News
3 stories tagged ascii, newest first.
UTF-8 is a brilliant design(iamvishnu.com)
777 points by vishnuharidas | 305 comments
A blog post explaining how UTF-8 encoding represents millions of characters while remaining backward compatible with ASCII.
Things Every Hacker Once Knew (2017)(catb.org)
327 points by prakhar897 | 172 comments
Eric S. Raymond's essay on obsolete computing lore once common among hackers, covering modems, RS232, octal, terminals, ASCII, and pre-Internet networks.