{"id":1413,"date":"2009-02-10T15:41:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T14:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/180.211.110.195:8082\/biestmilch\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:28:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:28:02","slug":"ascii-american-standard-code-for-information-interchange-fashion-in-grafic-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/10\/ascii-american-standard-code-for-information-interchange-fashion-in-grafic-design\/","title":{"rendered":"ASCII \u2013 American Standard Code for Information Interchange \u2013 Fashion in Grafic Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I take up this topic and the ASCII Adcampaign of Sixt car rental company today because of our own plans to use it as a design tool for the new header of our blog (coming soon), ASCII files mimicking words and words and words raining on the biestmilch universe.<br \/> I thought it makes sense to have look at the original meaning of ASCII. Many of us are using this abbreviation, at least in Gemany without having a clue of what it means. Here is the clue for those who are as ignorant as I am \ud83d\ude09 !<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1418\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1418\" title=\"217px-ascii_fullsvg\" alt=\"table of ascii signs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/217px-ascii_fullsvg.png\" width=\"217\" height=\"164\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">table of ascii signs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ASCII stand for \u00bbAmerican Standard Code for Information Interchange\u00ab, pronounced \/\u02c8\u00e6ski\/. It is a character-encoding scheme based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character-encoding schemes\u2014which support many more characters than did the original\u2014have a historical basis in ASCII.<br \/> Historically, ASCII developed from telegraphic codes. Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services. Work on ASCII formally began October 6, 1960. Compared to earlier telegraph codes, the proposed Bell code and ASCII were both ordered for more convenient sorting (i.e., alphabetization) of lists, and added features for devices other than teleprinters.<br \/> ASCII includes definitions for 128 characters: 33 are non-printing, mostly-obsolete control characters that affect how text is processed. 94 are printable characters, and the space is considered an invisible graphic. The ASCII character-encoding scheme is the most-commonly-used character set on the Internet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1417\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1417\" title=\"ascii_adwords\" alt=\"Cars and cars and cars...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ascii_adwords.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ascii_adwords.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ascii_adwords-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ASCII Cars and cars and cars&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ours would have been words and words and words raining on our<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1416\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1416\" title=\"address-bar-animation\" alt=\"car racing in the address bar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/address-bar-animation.png\" width=\"334\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/address-bar-animation.png 334w, https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/address-bar-animation-300x43.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ASCII car racing in the address ba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Advertising Lab\" href=\"http:\/\/adverlab.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/branded-animated-url.html\">Advertising Lab<\/a>; animated version <a title=\"Sixt ASCII ads\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E_mI8OCAMs4&amp;eurl=http:\/\/adverlab.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/branded-animated-url.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In case we use the ASCII header at least we have some more awareness of its roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take up this topic and the ASCII Adcampaign of Sixt car rental company today because of our own plans to use it as a design tool for the new header of our blog (coming soon), ASCII files mimicking words and words and words raining on the biestmilch universe. 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