Context: ASCII (i/ˈæski/ ASS-kee), abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character-encoding scheme (the IANA prefers the name US-ASCII). ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many additional characters. ASCII was the most common character encoding on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when it was surpassed by UTF-8, which is fully backward compatibe to ASCII.

Question: What does ASCII stand for?
Answer: American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Question: What is the definition of ASCII?
Answer: is a character-encoding scheme

Question: What does ASCII code represent?
Answer: text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text

Question: ASCI was the most common character encoding on the world wide web until when?
Answer: December 2007

Question: Who surpassed ASCII?
Answer: UTF-8

Question: What was ASCII designed to represent before going through major changes?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: ASCII was the second most common character encoding on the world wide web until when?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who made ASCII obselete?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What are most fully backward schemes based on?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What does most communications equipment represent?
Answer: Unanswerable