As minidroit said, binary is just a way to interpret stuff. The most easy way to understand how people got to binary is to understand electric circuits. More straightforward, to understand how a light switch works. You can see the state "on" as 1 and the "off" state of the light switch as 0. This way, if you have two light switches you can have a combination of 00 and 11 to know if both lights are on or of at the same time. The concept goes way further than this but I hope this helps
Binary is simply a way of expressing data in base-2 for use in boolean systems (transistors, switches, the most basic types of logic). Binary was created out of necessity by computer & electrical engineers to interact with & create chains in integrated circuits. There are probably courses online that teach you how to read & write in binary.
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VoidTheo
As minidroit said, binary is just a way to interpret stuff. The most easy way to understand how people got to binary is to understand electric circuits. More straightforward, to understand how a light switch works. You can see the state "on" as 1 and the "off" state of the light switch as 0. This way, if you have two light switches you can have a combination of 00 and 11 to know if both lights are on or of at the same time. The concept goes way further than this but I hope this helps
Minidroit
Binary is simply a way of expressing data in base-2 for use in boolean systems (transistors, switches, the most basic types of logic). Binary was created out of necessity by computer & electrical engineers to interact with & create chains in integrated circuits. There are probably courses online that teach you how to read & write in binary.