June 24, 2004
R.I.P. Bob Bemer
Robert W. Bemer, the not-so-wide known father of ASCII and the backslash character, inventor of the ESCape sequence, early proponent of the 8-bit byte standard, and a whole lot more, has died of cancer. The Internet, computers... actually, our whole world would not be the same without his work.
Posted by roam at June 24, 2004 11:47 AM
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