Help me decode this (BINARY?)!

[V4NT0M]

OK, so over ten years ago I made a personal website when I was at college, it's still online and I found something funny in the HTML source code...

It was some binary encoded as "i" and "!" instead of 1's and 0's respectivley like so...

[i!!i] [i!iii i!!i ii!! ii!!] [!!!i ii!! i!iii !!!i ii!!i i!!ii] there was more but I edited it out to protect the innocent.

I substituted the numbers and each set of 4 binary block related to a letter of the alphabet, like A=1, B=2 and so on, so the message above reads:

"I will always".

HOWEVER, I came across another code but I cannot for the life of me figure it out!

!ii! !!!i!i!i !!i!!i!! i!!! !!!i!i!i !!i!!!!i !!!i!i!! !i!!

So most likely:

0110 00010101 00100100 1000 00010101 00100001 00010100 0100

But IDK!!

I guess it may not even be binary but after ten years the old noggin is failing me...

 

[V4NT0M]

FOXHOUND

BUT WHY?

Funnily enough foxhound was a code word for something or someone else...

What pray tell did I actually do to this text btw?

 

[V4NT0M]

Hint: it's not 1 5 (A E ) but 15 (O) as per the square brackets around the original letter groupings.

pad each set of numbers ith 4 zeros to make conversion easy :

But wht is/who is foxhound. ? The forum must be told.

Surprising that I encoded it like that originally, even more surprising I didn't think to do it that way now.

Foxhound referred to a girl I crashed and burned with in college, her surname being fox and all...