I’ve always pronounced it Ass-key
Welcome to the fold. First rule of 🍑 🔑: claim territory, and keep the isekai clan off our turf.
They give you trouble, you call me, captchisce? 🤌
I say ass key
ASCII a stupid question and you get a stupid ANSI
The joke is that ‘isekai’ in Japanese translates to “another world” in English. 1985 was truly another world, as anyone who was there might attest.
You sure it wasn’t IBM time travellers from 1985 sent her to ebcdic you?
Lemmy is the only place I’ve seen EBCDIC referenced, other than the college class that introduced me to it.
Lemmy is for sure the only place where I’ve seen a JOKE about it. Nerd.
I like you.
I worked for a credit bureau for a while and a product we had used a mainframe for billing customers. So the billing file was in EBCDIC.
