What is ASCII used for?

  • ASCII is an acronym that stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
  • ASCII is used to translate computer text to human text.
  • All computers speak in binary, a series of 0 and 1. However, just like English and Spanish can use the same alphabet but have completely different words for similar objects, computers also had their own version of languages. ASCII is used as a method to give all computers the same language, allowing them to share documents and files.
  • ASCII is important because the development gave computers a common language.
  • ASCII is important because it is our link between our computer screen and our computer hard drive, and that link is now the same between all computers.
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