Yup, I talked about this (and the origins of ASCII and why Ctrl+M is new line etc) in a talk I gave at the end of last year entitled "A brief history of Unicode

Yup, I talked about this (and the origins of ASCII and why Ctrl+M is new line etc) in a talk I gave at the end of last year entitled "A brief history of Unicode". The video recording has just been published on InfoQ: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/unicode-history https://www.infoq.com/presentations/unicode-history