What happens physically when the user interacts with the computer, when a button is pressed on the keyboard for example?

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The question is the basics of how a computer works, most people seem to think it is magic or something, I would like to understand.

Is it an electric charge that goes on a chip? how does that translate into a screen?

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Way tooo many things are happening, but its a combination of electrical circuits having a change in voltage or current, then it is sampled, then converted to different types of code, ran through a CPU, then changes to different codes again, goes to RAM, leaves RAM, goes back to Gpu, gets read again in different code, the new code is sent to the monitor, and then changed to voltage current again. Wayyyy too many things to explain, but it takes a lot to make a computer work 🙂

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