Eli5: How does electricity = data?

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We have electronics that can do a multitude of incredible things. I understand that data has to do with the binary system, but I can’t get my head around how electricity can be transfered into data… and how that data can then generate images and render graphics, etc. I mean, wut!? Plz hlp, brain cannot compute.

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Binary is a system of digits like our own but it “resets” at 1 instead of 9. Since there is only 1 and 0 you can use electricity turning something “energized” to represent 1 and “not-energized” as 0. You can use that to represent data in a way a computer understands (0s and 1s).

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