How do computer parts turn electricity into useable information?

Question

Like how do they turn the electricity running through them into actual 1’s and 0’s and show all of that on my screen?

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Answer 1

In short… Transistors. Hundreds of billions of them, operating at billions of cycles per second. In other words, extremely fast. Each transistor is either a 1 or 0. The CPU denotes this by using an electrical current to indicate on and no current to indicate off.

Put all those 0’s and 1’s together to form letters, numbers, color pixels, emojis, and so on. Your monitor just interprets them and displays the pixels in the correct locations.