The full form of ASCII is American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is classified under ISO 646 series. It is the traditional name in order to do encoding system. The US based Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) controls it and was developed in the US as well. ASCII is character encoding standard which is used in equipment, computers, telecommunications and other similar devices. It is used for the representation of text in different devices. It is a set of typographical symbols which are pre-set in a device. It is also classified under one of the IEEE milestones. ASCII represents 128 English characters in form of numbers from 0 to 127. All devices use this code to represent different texts due to which it is possible to transfer data between two devices easily with the help of a network. Word processors and text editors store data in this format. It is not possible to store executable programs in this form.