Seonglae Cho
Young hackers have forgotten the ASCII bit structure and the meanings of obscure control characters that were once common knowledge
Things Every Hacker Once Knew
One fine day in January 2017 I was reminded of something I had
half-noticed a few times over the previous decade. That is, younger
hackers don’t know the bit structure of ASCII and the meaning of the
odder control characters in it.
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