Eli5: What is the real difference between analog and digital?

Question

I tried looking it up, and my brain just wasn’t making sense of it, but I haven’t had coffee yet so.

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Think of old-time rotating dimmer switches that people have (or used to have) in their dining rooms. They could go anywhere from fully-off to filly-on, and anywhere in-between. That’s analog. But, most switches are only on/off — that’s digital.