• GeneralVincent@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    ASCII (wiki) is the older way of doing character encoding for computers.

    Isekai (also wiki) is a sub genre of anime that involves getting teleported from a normal world to a fantasy/sci-fi setting. Getting hit by a vehicle in an Isekai anime has become a meme as the means of being teleported.

    The 1985 in Seattle… Idk what’s referencing specifically.

    Edit: I should have included IBM in my googling haha Looks like IBM in Seattle in 1985 (IBM website) was really hitting its stride

      • yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        11 months ago

        well, i’d say more systems use unicode nowadays, especially if you only count user-facing software…

        though, yeah, because univode is a superset of ascii, ascii’s still technically very much in use and very popular!

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          11 months ago

          You underestimate the amount of legacy code, or standards that enforce it like AIS for ship transponders or ASTERIX for aircraft callsigns etc.