ASCII - Definition
ASCII is an abbreviation for for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a coding scheme that assigns numbers to 256 characters, including text, numbers, punctuation marks, and certain special characters. ASCII is divided into two sets: 128 characters (known as standard ASCII) and an additional 128 known as extended ASCII. The extra characters were added so they could represent non-English characters such as graphics symbols and mathematical symbols etc.
Top Reasons To Wipe Away Your Internet History
- Information about all the web sites you have visited is stored on your computer!
- Every image you have ever viewed, sent or received over the Internet is stored on your system!
- There is a record of every program that you have ever downloaded or used on your hard drive!
- Pressing the delete button and emptying the recycle bin does NOT completely delete your files!
- Cleaning your History Files improves the speed of your computer and frees valuable disk space!
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