This is my last comment on the CRLF issue, which I just used as the
(for me) obvious example for what I was trying to say.
On Jan 24, 2013, at 02:20, John C Klensin <john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com> wrote:
Oh, my. This is getting to be interesting. I had no direct
interaction with or insight into the ASA (later ANSI) committee
that did ASCII
You are off by about six decades.
CR and LF were invented around 1901 by Donald Murray and became part
of "International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2" (ITA2, now CCITT S.1),
which was originally standardized in 1932. (That is the 5-bit code
usually (incorrectly) called "Baudot code".) This was, of course, the
state of the art from which the standardization of ASCII started six
decades later.
I think any further discussion of these details would be off-topic,
but it does amuse me that the vestigial we are talking about is about
111 years old.
Grüße, Carsten