Why are special characters such as "carriage return" represented as "^M"?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/763879/w...

Accepted answer links:
[Caret Notation]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_notat...
[here]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#ASCII...

Answer 2 links:
[ascii(7)]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/asc...
[this extract from the original document]: http://worldpowersystems.com/J/codes/X3....

Answer 3 links:
[image]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...
[Image]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:...
[File:ASR-33 2.jpg]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:...
[CC BY 2.0]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2...

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