ASCII was actually invented in the US in the 1960s, as a
standardised way of encoding text on a computer. ASCII
defined 128 characters, that's a character for half of the
256 possible bytes in an 8-bit computer system.
Uh? Wouldn't it be easier to just say that it's a 7-bit coding system? And what does he mean by "256 possible bytes in an 8-bit computer system"?
