Tagged: computerphile

UTF-8 – “The most elegant hack”

Representing symbols, characters and letters that are used worldwide is no mean feat, but unicode managed it – how? Tom Scott explains how the web has settled on a standard. [via hackaday]

Punch Card Programming

Punch Card Programming

How did punch card systems work? Professor Brailsford delves further into the era of mainframe computing with this hands-on look at punch cards. [Via Computerphile]

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