It describes how we got here in excruciating detail, starting with Morse. Military communication systems had great influence. Before the ASCII, as we know it today, there was an "ASCII-1963" that was a bit different.
The long and winding path:
Morse
Baudot
Murray
ITA2
FIELDATA
ASCII-1963
ASCII-1967
An annotated history of some character codes or ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Infiltration
http://worldpowersystems.com/J/codes/
It describes how we got here in excruciating detail, starting with Morse. Military communication systems had great influence. Before the ASCII, as we know it today, there was an "ASCII-1963" that was a bit different.
The long and winding path: Morse Baudot Murray ITA2 FIELDATA ASCII-1963 ASCII-1967