Context: ASCII itself was first used commercially during 1963 as a seven-bit teleprinter code for American Telephone & Telegraph's TWX (TeletypeWriter eXchange) network. TWX originally used the earlier five-bit ITA2, which was also used by the competing Telex teleprinter system. Bob Bemer introduced features such as the escape sequence. His British colleague Hugh McGregor Ross helped to popularize this work –  according to Bemer, "so much so that the code that was to become ASCII was first called the Bemer-Ross Code in Europe". Because of his extensive work on ASCII, Bemer has been called "the father of ASCII."

Question: When was ASCII first commercially used?
Answer: 1963

Question: What was it used for?
Answer: a seven-bit teleprinter code for American Telephone & Telegraph's TWX (TeletypeWriter eXchange) network

Question: What did TWX use before ASCII?
Answer: five-bit ITA2

Question: Who is the father of ASCII?
Answer: Bob Bemer

Question: What was the code first called in Europe?
Answer: Bemer-Ross Code

Question: When was ASCII first used by Berner-Ross?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did TWX use because to counter slow loading times of ASCII?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who competed against ASCII?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was the TWX first called in Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who competed against eight-bit teleprinter code?
Answer: Unanswerable