请根据以下提示，用英文介绍ASCII码：要求包括三个要点，每个要点包含一个句子，必要时可以引用英文缩写，并使用单句回复。
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ASCII, or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used to represent text in computers. It uses 7-bit codes to represent 128 characters, including both control characters and printable characters. ASCII was first published in 1963 and remains widely used in data transmission and computer systems.
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