Pssst...Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter THE LATEST NEWS Saturday, June 26, 2004 Pioneer Dies Bob Bemer, inventor of ASCII, the ESC key, and even the man who named the COBOL programing language died this week at the age of 84. According to Reuters: "He worked for several years for IBM Corp. in the late 1950s and 1960s, and it was there that he helped develop the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII is a format code use..
