ascii stands for: the american standard code for information interchange and was finalized at 1968. (ASCII Chart) maybe that is no date for dave winer, but for some parts of the world things changed since than.

i updated the XML-RPC spec to remove the word ASCII from the definition of string type, and changed the copyright dates from 1998-99 to 1998-2003. (winer)

"To understand the original intent of the ASCII control codes, you have to think of teletypes, using paper tape, configured in a multidrop system with relay logic used to turn on or off individual teletypes in the bunch ... (Understanding ASCII Codes)

putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia' * 2.1 People lie * 2.2 People are lazy * 2.3 People are stupid * 2.4 Mission: Impossible -- know thyself * 2.5 Schemas aren't neutral * 2.6 Metrics influence results * 2.7 There's more than one way to describe something

i landed at the memory page of sgml pioneer yuri rubinsky (1952-1996) the tribute list is like a "who's who". softquad is gone but its other two founders are still doing their work. david slocombe was last year at the xml conference in barna. his talk had the title there are no unstructured documents. hm. sorry can't really remember. i think i was too occupied by trying to understand mr newcomb. stan bevington is publishing books. someone wrote about him:

Stan Bevington, however, has always been a visionary who combines traditional printing methods with state-of-the-art technology. It is no accident that he has been involved in software development with the Toronto-based company SoftQuad since the 60's. He resurrected the press in 1997 with a new name, Coach House Books, and a new mandate, to publish high quality, limited edition books that were also available free online prior to publication in book form. While a print run for a newly published book might be only 300 copies, the virtual press receives between 4,000 and 8,000 visits per week