The term ASCII letters stands for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII codes, as they are more commonly known, are used to represent text in a wide of variety of computer-based systems. Essentially, ASCII is a character-encoding scheme that represents the English alphabet. Originally, the basis of the code dates back to the telegraph, but its more current use was founded
. in the 1960?s. Until recently, US-ASCII was the most widely used character encoding format on the World Wide Web. In 2008, UTF-8 became the lead encoder.
