What does ASCII mean or stand for ?
Ascii is the language of the machines! Humans communicate with alphabets and subsequently languages.Machines only understand on and off.Yes they are that stupid! ON is denoted by digit 1 and OFF by digit 0.A combination of 0s and 1s arranged in 7 characters represents each englsih alphabet.
Like 0100011 represents G.Genius isnt it.Thats the way we teach machines to understand what we say.