From Reddit
comes Character Encodings For Modern Programmers,
a facinating look into the history of character sets used by computers.
Did you know that
some form of electrical communications have existed for about 175 years?
Or that time-division multiplexing
(multiple messages sliced into segments,
sharing a single wire)
was done as early as 1873?
That Thomas Edison tried his hand at time-division multiplexing in 1876?
Or that the first serial communication system using bits was designed in 1882?
I didn't.
And we haven't even gotten to character sets yet!
I don't know … I just find this stuff interesting.
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