What is ASCII?

   What is ASCII? ASCII stands for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange and is "the most common format for text files on the Internet and computers". ASCII originated from the alphabet and from telegraphic codes that were used in telegraphy machines to send messages in Morse code. Since then, ASCII has been developed to accomodate more symbols/characters and has been reorganized. Today we use this code to represent text in computers and other electronics.