 
 <prompt> Wetin be ASCII work? Based on di last question, write small tori wey contain di answer. E fit be 1 - 20 sentences. Context: <response>: ```ASCII (i/ˈæski/ ASS-kee), wey dem shorten from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, na character-encoding scheme (the IANA dey prefer make dem call am US-ASCII). ASCII codes dey represent text for computers, communications equipment, and other devices wey dey use text. Most modern character-encoding schemes dey based on ASCII, even though dem support plenty additional characters. ASCII bin dey the most common character encoding for the World Wide Web until December 2007, when UTF-8 pass am, wey dey fully backward compatible with ASCII.``` 