The Elegance of the ASCII Table

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2024/07/21/ascii/ASCII, a standard whose legacy defines to this day how most of the letters and numbers in your computer get encoded into ones and zeroes, is elegant and beautiful. Via lessons in computer history, punched tape, and typewriters, I'd love to share some of its logic with you.00:00 Introduction 00:23 The Elegance of the ASCII Table 02:03 History of ASCII 03:36 ASCII Table Layouts 03:54 Control Codes 08:27 Space 09:37 Numbers 10:44 Shifted Numbers 11:54 Uppercase Letters 12:55 Lowercase Letters 14:02 The Beauty of the ASCII Table 14:53 Outro