Computer graphics have come a long way. Some video games today exceed what would have passed for stunning cinema animation only a few years ago. However, it hasn’t always been like this.

A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw text just like the words you are reading now. Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the ...

ASCII code allows computers to understand how to represent text. In ASCII, each character (letter, number, symbol or control character) is represented by a binary value. Extended ASCII is a ...

The sequential order of ASCII data. In ASCII code, lower case characters follow upper case. True ASCII order would put the words DATA, data and SYSTEM into the following sequence. See ASCII chart.

Readers of a certain age may fondly remember ASCII art emerging from line printers ... it sported a resolution roughly equivalent to the dot-matrix impact printers of the day.