Article contents aside, I absolutely adore the styling in the site. It's such a lovely 00s vibe.
nyanpasu64 4/13/2025||
I noticed the article uses the Polyvers font (complete with bold capitals in the headings), which I haven't seen on the Internet. Wonder what that is.
EDIT: It seems to coexist with U001, which is "An Univers-like typeface that comes with GhostPDL made by URW++."
chuckadams 4/13/2025||
Looking at that font again makes me want to start up Nethack all of a sudden.
brontitall 4/13/2025||
Does anyone know why it’s “code page 437”? Like why 437? Was there 437 code pages before it? Does the 437 bit pattern map to something in the hardware? Was it a character rom part number?
lifthrasiir 4/13/2025||
It originates from the code page 37, which is the EBCDIC-based character set for US and Canada. At least initially EBCDIC code pages are numbered sequentially while PC DOS code pages were numbered more or less randomly; I have no clue why it is the code page 437 and not 337. (I can see why it is not 137 nor 237, as later code pages were numbered from 251.)
numpad0 4/13/2025||
There's a list of known code pages on Wikipedia[0]