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What are carriage return, linefeed, and form feed?

I'm still learning JavaScript, and I came across think link for escaping special characters.

http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_special_characters.asp

I understand the other characters, but what are carriage return, backspace, and form feed for? Are carriage return and form feed similar to new line?