This article was taken from the February 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands ...

To represent text in a computer system, we give each character its own special number. This number is called its code. We can then store this code in the computer using binary ones and zeros. ASCII ...

So, you’re a keyboard enthusiast. The ‘board that came from Dell, HP, or whoever made your computer is just not for you. You have an ancient IBM, a decal-free Das Keyboard, or another similarly ...