From the late 1980’s to the early 1990’s and on, a bit of history can be found at Textfiles.com
. Here, historical collections of text documents are stored and archived in one place that can be seen by all. Whether searching for a bit of history or reading for education, all sorts of categories are archived on this website.
According to the disclaimer, this site is meant to be a collection of the textfiles written on BBSes in the 1980’s. Without this archive, a piece of history might have gone without notice. During the 1980’s and early 1990’s computers were just coming into households. Only a fraction of people owned a computer during that time. Very few knew the power of a BBS and what it was like to post on one. These textfiles give an insight as to what graphics and the "web" as we know it was like before the internet as we know it today existed. During this era, there was no "AOL" or "Google", but instead you dialed into a computer and selected text to read off of Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes) from a menu driven system from an operating system such as DOS or UNIX via the command line.
This collection or library offers text files on many subjects, concepts, points of view and writing styles. Uncensored, it is a website that brings thoughts and knowledge from all levels of society. With topics such as Ham Radio, Law, Computers, Food, News, Artwork and more, this website brings together what took decades to create. Be sure to visit Textfiles.com and see a bit of history in the making.
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ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. This is a world-wide standard for the code of numbers that is used by computers to represent all of the upper case, lower case, numbers and symbols including Latin letters, numbers, and punctuation.
In all, 7 digit binaries are used with the combination of different 0’s a 1’s in different places. In all, there are 128 combinations that can be created with the digits 0000000 through 1111111.
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