Binary Translator
Text to 8-bit binary and back. 01100011 01101100.
8-bit ASCII. Each character becomes eight ones and zeros.
BINARY
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THE HISTORY ◢
Binary writes every character as a run of 0s and 1s, the only two states a digital circuit needs. The scheme used here is ASCII, standardised in 1963, which gives each letter, digit and symbol its own 8-bit code - the layer sitting underneath essentially all the text a computer stores.
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