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Aivosto. Analyze, Document and Flowchart Source Code is the company blog at aivosto.com, writing about programming and history. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “DOS Codepages and Their History”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link an article on DOS character sets and code pages, such as CP437. The comments cite it as a source on early PC character encodings and emoji-like glyphs. None judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- DOS Codepages and Their History3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-11-27
- Control Characters in ASCII and Unicode2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-01
What Hacker News says?
Yes, though there were intermediaries like CP437 [0] which contained crude emoji. That said, though I was exposed to them growing up in the 90s, emoticons by far dominated every message board and chat service I ever used. Emoji didn’t really take off (at least, in America) until smartphones hit. [0]: https://www.aivosto.com/articles/charsets-codepages-dos.html
Comment linking /articles/charsets-codepages-dos.html
on “Show HN: Facad – A colorful directory listing tool for the command line”Submitted Control Characters in ASCII and Unicode as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAs brazzy said, there's no such thing as extended ASCII. There's just a huge number of ASCII-compatible eight-bit encodings. The original IBM (and DOS) character set, hardwired into ROM, is the one you're thinking of, and went by various names such as "Personal Computer, MS-DOS United States, MS-DOS Latin US, OEM United States, DOS Extended ASCII (United States), PC-ASCII" [1]. DOS 3.3, in 1987, was the first versio…
Comment linking /articles/charsets-codepages-dos.html
on “Monosketch”Submitted DOS Codepages and Their History as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Control Characters in ASCII and Unicode as a story · 1 points
HN discussion