The Busco Quadnary story

 In 2016, I made my first Kickstarter. It was called Busco Quadnary. The word "busco" means "to search" in Spanish. "Quadnary" was just a play on the term binary. Anyway, I looked up after a day and saw that I had seven thousand views. On my first and only Kickstarter! I had stumbled onto something amazing, I just didn't know it yet. People were livid. I got called all sorts of names. Pretty much every negative thing a person can be called, I was called. I was so happy! I had struck a super nerve in society.  Here's the link to the video if you haven't seen it: https://youtu.be/RVhHNVguMWo

Was I mad at the response? For a black man to go viral for trying to program a computer? For doing something other than sports-or crime-related? Finding that video was the best thing that ever happened to me up to that point. I never claimed racism, complained, or put a copyright strike on the video. In fact, I was cheering it on the whole way. I still watch it occasionally.

To this day, nobody knows what Busco Quadnary was supposed to be. Nobody understands the idea. I gave the long version of the story of how I came up with the idea in the Kickstarter video I made back in 2016. I'll give the short version now. A binary digit is a base-2 digit, which means that it can only represent two numbers (zero and one or on and off). If you have one binary digit, you can represent a maximum of two numbers. But, if you have two binary digits, you can represent up to four numbers. Those are (0,0), (0,1), (1,0) and (1,1). And...

That was the entire idea. 

An ASCII character has eight bits, or two to the eighth possible numbers. You can basically only represent English characters with ASCII, because you only have two to the eighth possible numbers to represent those characters.

However, a UTF-8 character is also eight bits, but it adds extra bits in as needed in order to represent more characters. That's why the UTF-8 character base keeps growing. There is no fixed size of a UTF-8 character in bits. You can technically represent any character known to man using UTF-8. That means, there are currently not enough unique character sets in existence to exhaust the possibilities of UTF-8.

So, that's it.