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In a proper font for Irish, the i has no dot, and the & looks like a cross between 7 and the continental 1 (that has no pedestal but a longer nose). It's very logical for i to have no dot in any language using í or ì. Irish scribes invented lower case as method more suited to handwriting than ROMAN LETTERING. Actual old Irish fonts are a little hard for people not familiar, but easier on the eye than the German Gothic Black Letter stuff.
The !, ? #, @, /, %, =, *, (, ) and & were on typewriters and also on Teleprinters / Telex (from late 1928 onwards). I'm not sure which punctuation the Victorian typewriters had.
Golfballs and later Daisywheels and Thimbles I think increased the characters to 96.
Printers (engraving long before Moveable Type in Europe) obviously were not limited, but in England type was imported. There was no þ, which was later transliterated as Th. So the letter Y was pressed into service. Ye Shop is really The Shop.
Changes in orthography are very slow. Old Wordstar never had extended ASCII, (96 x 2 = 192 printable) but you could embed backspaces to overprint ?! or L and - as a rubbish £ symbol.
I can't remember if teletypes had | \ ¬ ¦ ^ { } or ~. I think they did have [ ] < >
Just saying.
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