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>>55590531
You may be familiar with the classic 1s and 0s of binary. A more accurate way to view them would be "ons" and "offs". If electric power is being fed, it's on, if no power, it's off. Translate this to a morse code style set of ons and offs and now you have a readable language. The more digits you add, the more complex the code can be.

Our current computers manage to be so complex because they're an immensely scaled down version of what was originally a military system meant to calculate and aim missles. That first computer was the size of a small room, and used large tubes which opened and closed rather than electric signals. It's also why we refer to errors as "bugs", because at one point there was a literal bug in the computer blocking one of the tubes from closing.

Wireless is just using an airborne version of these pulses. Once the reciever detects a pattern rather than white noise it translates that into data and instructs the computer to do what the data is telling it, which in our case is usually to make the screen pixels spell out nigger.