I Built an ASCII-to-Text Converter Because I Kept Seeing Numbers Instead of Words

The First Time I Saw ASCII Codes I was looking at a piece of data that looked like this: 72 101 108 108 111 44 32 87 111 114 108 100 33 My first thought was: "What am I supposed to do with this?" It looked like a random list of numbers. But it wasn't random at all. One click later, it became: Hello, World! That was my "aha" moment. Computers weren't storing random numbers...