I gave a talk on the origins of Unicode a while ago (now published on InfoQ at https://www.infoq.com/presentations/unicode-history https://www.infoq.com/present

I gave a talk on the origins of Unicode a while ago (now published on InfoQ at https://www.infoq.com/presentations/unicode-history https://www.infoq.com/presentations/unicode-history if you're interested) where I talked about ASCII, and where that came from in the past (including baudot code and teletype). The slide pertaining to ASCII is here: https://speakerdeck.com/alblue/a-brief-history-of-unicode?slide=6 https://speakerdeck.com/alblue/a-brief-history-of-unicode?sl...