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33 ! Without the exclamation point, email and chat rooms would be
quieter places. Should be a law about using more than one per
paragraph, and I think there is a law about using more than one in
a row!!!
34 " Thanks, but it would've been even nicer to have true open and close
double quotes. There don't seem to have been any typographers on
the committee.
35 # Pound sign gets in and cent sign doesn't? A miscarriage of justice.
36 $ No way was this power symbol going to be left out.
37 % Had it made the cut, perhaps ¢ would have gone right here, right
next to the dollar sign.
38 & Ma Bell was part of the committee, so ampersand was a given.
39 ' Again, it would have been nice to have open and close single
quotes. The ASCII apostrophe is functional, but ugly.
40 (
41 )
42 *
43 +
44 , The comma, punctuation superstar
45 - The hyphen a.k.a. minus sign. Would've been nice to have an
em-dash too.
46 . The period, a.k.a. decimal point, a.k.a. dot, punctuation megastar.
47 / The handy, work-a-day slash. Not to be confused with its evil
twin, backslash.
48 0 The decimal digits are in order (the Committee may have blown it on
the cent sign, but they weren't dummies). Subtract 48 from an ASCII
digit and you have its value.
49 1
50 2
51 3
52 4
53 5
54 6
55 7
56 8
57 9
58 : Did the Committee foresee Emoticons? : )
59 ; . . . I doubt it. ; )
60 < Angle brackets. Useless to most, crucial to programmers for
expressing greater than/less than numerical relationships. -->
They also make cool arrowheads. <--
61 =
62 >
63 ?
64 @ The at sign—90s email superstar, 60's nobody. You had to shift the
cent key to get @ on typewriters.
65 A The 26 uppercase alphabetic characters begin here; the order is
unsurprising. Lowercase begins 32 (not 26) codes later. This is
why simple-minded sort code places words in caps ahead of
lowercase, e.g., "CAT" < "DOG" < "cat" < "dog"
66 B
67 C
68 D
69 E
70 F
71 G
72 H
73 I
74 J
75 K
76 L
77 M
78 N
79 O
80 P
81 Q
82 R
83 S
84 T
85 U
86 V
87 W
88 X
89 Y
90 Z
91 [ Square brackets.
92 \ The infamous backslash. What were they thinking?
93 ]
94 ^ When was the last time you typed this character? Admittedly, it's
handy for drawing up-arrows, but since there's no down arrow, why
bother?
95 _ The underscore. Handy in forms, and programmers_Use_It_To_Create_
An_Illusion_Of_Space where the language doesn't permit a real
space.
96 ` Grave (backward) accent. In this country, obscure in the extreme.
97 a The lower case alphabet starts at 97; each letter has the same
value as its uppercase counterpart plus 32. In binary form,
they're identical, except for a single bit.
98 b
99 c
100 d
101 e
102 f
103 g
104 h
105 i
106 j
107 k
108 l
109 m