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June 24, 2004
The Great Esc
The Great Esc
Bob Bemer, a computer pioneer who helped invent the ASCII coding system that is used in computers to represent text has died age 84, he also contributed the escape key and the backslash to the computer language.
On his website, he described himself as a "Computer software consultant, futurist and raconteur."
A memorial service in binary is scheduled for Saturday.
Posted by mrmule at June 24, 2004 05:44 AM
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