write a technology essay

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace

Write a 300-400 (500 max) word essay about this Backspace. Please cover the following

topics (or have subsections if desired).

• (20 points) why it was created, including the history/motivations/needs/etc. (~150

words)

• (15 points) how it is currently used (~100 words)

• (10 points) your thoughts on the character, including how useful it is, if you had ever

seen it before, does learning about it change your perspective on things, etc. (~100

words)

Please provide examples as needed, but that code doesn’t count toward word count.

Write this report for an audience of reasonably technical people, but people who are not

developers and don’t know how to code. This means, for example, if you reference a new

line character, you should explain what it is. But you don’t need to explain what a script is or

what the command line is.

This assignment is meant to give you experience investigating something technical and new,

and preparing a short explanation on its technical history and how that has adapted to

current use. While knowing facts about these specific control characters isn’t crucial, having

the experience of researching and synthesizing new technical information will be important.

We will be checking for plagiarism. So remember: don’t copy/paste anything from wikipedia,

use footnotes or other citation schemas to cite your sources. Try to cite sources other than

wikipedia, but you can use wikipedia if needed.

Have at least 3 sources you used for reference, one of which can be wikipedia. There are

plenty of standards organizations out there that will talk about these characters, look for

those if you are having trouble finding non-wikipedia entries.