Why Don’t Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII?

Something finally clicked for me. When looking at an ASCII table, you will notice that after the uppercase Z , there are a few other characters before lowercase a : Decimal Binary Symbol 88 01011000 X 89 01011001 Y 90 01011010 Z 91 01011011 [ 92 01011100 \ 93 01011101 ] 94 01011110 ^ 95 01011111 _ 96 01100000 ` 97 01100001 a It made sense to me that characters are represented by numbers, since…