ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Log ASCII Standard

Okay kiddo, have you ever heard of a logbook? You know, like the one you use to keep track of your progress in school, or the one your mommy and daddy might use to keep track of important information at work.

Well, the log ascii standard is kind of like a rulebook for how we write things down in a logbook when it comes to computer stuff.

Let me break it down for you:

When computers do things, they like to keep track of what they do so that later on they can remember what happened. They do this by writing things down in a logbook.

Now, because different types of computers speak different "languages" (just like how people from different countries speak different languages), we need to have a set of rules for how we write things down in the logbook so that everyone can understand it.

This set of rules is called the log ascii standard. It tells us how to write things down in a way that all computers can understand, no matter what language they speak.

So basically, the log ascii standard helps us keep track of what the computer is doing by making sure we write things down in a way that everyone can understand. Cool, huh?