if you go much further back though the character encoding didn't support lowercase, you were lucky your 5-bit baudot supported numbers, and now you have emojis and klingon letters and left-to-right top-to-bottom spiral-in spiral-out stuff in your code pages. what's next? parallel universal gpu instructions in the next unicode? embed an llm in a font and use notepad to query it?
unix did it first.
and i'm sure multics did it before unix.
if you go much further back though the character encoding didn't support lowercase, you were lucky your 5-bit baudot supported numbers, and now you have emojis and klingon letters and left-to-right top-to-bottom spiral-in spiral-out stuff in your code pages. what's next? parallel universal gpu instructions in the next unicode? embed an llm in a font and use notepad to query it?