👉 In the context of computer programming, a "beamman" is a type of character that appears in the ASCII table. They are typically used to represent whitespace characters and to indicate the start or end of lines. The term "beamman" was introduced by the game "Spacewar!" (also known as "Space Invaders") in 1980, and it has since become a popular symbol for representing whitespace characters in programming languages such as Python.