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by II2II 1905 days ago
It would be amusing if this was the case, but would he have been familiar with ASCII and wildcards when he wrote it?

It is rather easy to assume that ASCII and wildcards would be common knowledge since they predate the series while being common knowledge today (at least among those who use computers), but was this true when the series was written? ASCII is by no means the only character encoding scheme and asterisks are by no means the only wildcard character.