Help me to understand how 1's and 0's make up everything on the internet please.

vagina = 0
penis = 1
understand?

>>16707522 (OP)
I hope I don't sound patronizing here, but I'm going to act as if you know fuckall about anything and I will be oversimplifying:
There's these things called transistors. They're like electrically controlled switches. They have 3 points of contact. If you apply voltage to one of them (the gate) current can pass through the other two (source and drain). Through various tricks of circuit-fuckery, different configurations of "off" and "on" transistors can do different things due to the way they are all strung together.

The "1" and "0" indicates an "off" or "on" state.

>>16707575
How the fuck that does that end up allowing me to post on 4chan

>>16707586
Some transistors are used for storing data (well, an HDD uses the magnetic North or South polarity on sections of a metal disk to represent 1 or 0 but the point remains).
When the data is interpreted by another piece of circuitry, that combination of 1's and 0's is passed over and interpreted as instructions to do something.

Let's say you type the letter A. That sends a signal corresponding to "0100 0001" through your keyboard and into RAM for temporary storage. From RAM, the signal is reiterated to other bits of circuitry to do other things depending on the context of what process was running when you typed that letter. For example, your screen will adjust some pixels on your screen in the shape of an A wherever your cursor happens to be.
As for the internet, repeat all those steps except with a shared data center sending and receiving data to and from both of our computers.

>>16707522 (OP)
1's and 0's are numbers. You can store every letter as a number, and you can store this text as a string of numbers.

>>16707522 (OP)

A bit can contain either 0 or 1. A group of 8 bits makes a byte that store a number between 0 and 255. The number of possible values doubles with every additional bit.
We can interpret those numbers or even individual bits in any way we want, but for practical reasons we agreed on several standards.
To store negative numbers we agreed in two's complement.
To store floating point numbers we agreed on IEEE 754.
To store characters we agreed on ASCII and later on UTF8 to give meaning to each byte.
Sounds are sequences of numbers. The most common being 48000 signed numbers per second for every audio channel, plotting those numbers in time domain show you the sound wave.
Videos are sequences of images, images are sequences of pixels, and pixels contain color information stored as numbers. The most common pixel format is three bytes to store the red, green and blue brightness level.
Since video, images and audio are usually too large to be stored as is they are re-encoded using compression algorithms.

>>16707522 (OP)
The 1 and 0 correspond to on and off states of transistors and you can organize them to process logic and mathematical objects from that foundation. Everything on the screen is just pixels of certain colors ordered a certain way that change according to fixed patterns, all of which is mathematically expressible in base-2 numbers, logic drawing up from relations of truth and falsehood; 1 and 0 et cetera. It's a very easy, intuitive concept to understand without expertise. I don't know some of the details this guy >>16707575
>>16707595
is talking about but the question still seems ridiculous to me. I think some people make a certain cognitive error when they go about learning something.

You tell somebody what an atom is in very simple terms "The nucleus contains at least one proton and some number of neutrons. Protons and neutrons are made of quarks bound by the strong nuclear force-" and the student is like "I don't get it. What's a proton? What's a neutron? What kind of force? It doesn't make sense to me." The explanation makes perfect sense. You don't have to understand all the details you haven't heard yet to understand the introductory explanation. Just because the basic explanation compels quandries doesn't mean you don't understand. Just take the limited understanding you already must have had and progress from there.

>>16707522 (OP)
>>16707586
Start with the Greeks.

>>16707575
where do vacuum tubes come in?

>>16707648
Ur mum, faget.

In all seriousness, they're the predecessor of transistors and serve effectively the same purpose. And before vacuum tubes, relays were how we did digital logic. Hence the, probably apocryphal, story of a moth being found stuck in between relay contacts and that's why we call weird or unexpected computer behavior "bugs."

01101101 01100001 01100100 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101100 01101111 01101111 01101011

>>16707522 (OP)
Yes let me condense an entire electrical engineering subfield for you in a single 4chan post. If you really wanna know just start reading an EE logic design textbook.

>>16707618
>Start with the Greeks
Do you even read the Sunnah?
It is a seriously powerful spiritual journey.
Secular philosophy is a dark forest and unsatisfying.
The Sunnah is a life changing experience and rich in guidance.
Those degens at /lit/ throw a hissy fit if I even bring up the Koran.
Mathematics does not care if you disagree with the sum of numerals.

>>16707687
No but I would like to.

1s/0s -> 8-digit hex number -> 4 hex numbers ->16 and so on until you get a "kilo byte" then a "mega byte" and a "giga byte"

If you really want to know how computers work, get into hex editing.

> electricity drives millions of semiconductor “valves” (transistors) that switch on (1) or off (0)
> bits (1/0) combine into bytes (8 bits) standardized tables map each byte to a character (e.g. 01101000 “h”)
> when you press “h,” the keyboard’s firmware sends a scancode the OS converts it into byte 104
> the CPU stores that byte in RAM (fast, temporary memory)
> your browser formats those bytes into an HTTP request (a defined web message)
>the network card wraps this request into Ethernet frames and transmits voltage pulses over the cable
>(The internet is a giant web of computers and servers connected by cables, most of which are undersea fiber optic cables running across oceans.)
> the server’s network card receives the frames, extracts the HTTP request, stores your post, then assembles an HTTP response (HTML/CSS)
> that response is sent back in frames, your network card hands the bytes to your browser
> the browser parses the HTML/CSS, builds a render tree of page elements, and instructs the GPU/CPU to light up pixels accordingly
> voilà, your "Help me to understand how 1's and 0's make up everything on the internet please." appears on the screen on the other side of the world
and
>inb4 "what's with the black boxes?" or "you didn't explain shit"
You can only go so deep before you're neck deep in electrical engineering, compilers, and networking protocols. whatever the fuck

>>16707687
>Islamo-slop
No thanks

https://youtu.be/2IPAOxrH7Ro&t=145

>>16707522 (OP)
Digital Logic + Packet Switching Networking + OSI 7-layer communication model.