Eli5: how did the first ever programme on the Internet come about? Don’t you need something to read the codes?
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people had been making programs *long* before the internet. people used to write software and distribute it on CD, tape, and long before that, people would publish code in magazines and books you could manually type into your computer.
Lots of people got their first web browser either by buying it on CD (or being given it by their ISP) or by using internet explorer or whatever browser came pre-loaded on their computer
Good question! People have been programming long before the Internet was even a sparkle in someone’s imagination.
It all started with- believe it or not- paper!
People would punch holes in paper and read it into a scanning machine. Either the hole was punched, or it wasn’t.
This, eventually, turned into 0 and 1, and was typed in on early computers. 0 and 1, called **binary**, was the first programming language.
Binary is still used today, on every machine that reads code. We may have our fancy Java and C++ and Swift, but every single code practice all gets boiled down to a whole bunch of zeros and ones.
So to answer your question, computers that could ‘read’ 0s and 1s were already invented before the internet- and were necessary to create it!
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