>put electricity in a flattened rock >it starts thinking

>>38043222
do you have a question? im a compE so I'll reward your trips by answering. if you really wanna understand this shit take a computer architecture class then a VLSI class and you'll pretty much get it

>basically lots of switches or some shit
>somehow able to watch porn

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>>38043222
It's the little fella called transistor who does all the magic desu

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you could theoretically put the right combination of 0s and 1s into a notepad file and make the the greatest video game of all time

>>38044440
how did someone even make this

how did someone think of this

how do we mass produce this

>>38044448
no you couldn't because each one of those 1's and 0's is saved as 8 other 1's and 0's

>>38044358
What sort of pre-requisites should one have if they want to be able to comprehend a computer architecture class?

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>>38044489
god probably made it anon.

>>38044489
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware

please post trippy explanations for why computers work desu PLEASE

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It's not a rock, it's an etched crystal with specific atoms placed in to allow it to sometimes conduct.

>>38044489
>how did someone even make this
>how did someone think of this
we started with very simple math equations like 1+1=2 and gradually added more switches to make more complicated equations
>how do we mass produce this
chinks desu

>positions of electrons on a magnetic disk stores data
>electrons havent been directly observed until very recently

>>38044599
crystal is a genre of rock

Good introduction to binary logic using transistors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xISG4nGTQYE

>>38044549
You could, however. insert the right characters so the encoding matches the program you want to create.

>>38044599

Stop posting anime you FAGGOT!!!!!

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>>38044489
>how did someone even make this
Smart people who got the great idea to use the chemical traits of semi conductors as electrical switches

>how did someone think of this
Years of research

>how do we mass produce this
we literally "grow" silicon crystals into perfect clean colllumns and then cut a collumn into many thin disks, so called wafers, and then add silicon traces whith additional aluminium atoms and traces with borium atoms on it
Boom, there you have your integrated circuits

>>38044561
No it was the pure craft of men and science

>>38044594
All computer components are built with 4 basic logic gates and some connections between them

smart people ITT thank you for trying to explain how this works

I don't think I'll ever really get it but you're trying and that makes me feel nice

>>38044602
Americans were the first to design and mass produce microprocessors though.

>>38044489
A bunch of different people at a bunch of different times in history were doing a bunch of different things and all of those fields came together in the 1930s and 1940s to make modern computers.

People like Babbage and Turning were figuring out the maths behind how a machine can process numbers automatically. Bell Labs was playing around with transistors and realized you could do the maths described above using them.

Claude E. Shannon was working on how to more efficiently transmit voices over telephone lines, and used the concepts from thousands of years of telecommunications (such as signal houses, telegraphs, morse code) to come up with the idea of reducing voices to a series of blips, or On and Off, 0 and 1. Other people quickly realized just how incredibly useful this idea was for communication information using the calculating machines described above, and things kept progressing from there.

>>38044489
>how did someone even make this
Machines made that one.
>how did someone think of this
Someone way smarter than you and I figured it out.
>how do we mass produce this
Someone else also way smarter than you and I got it covered.

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>>38044790
>Claude E. Shannon
F

>>38044549
basics of digital logic and programming

>>38044750
men are God's mortal instruments

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>>38044594
A computer only needs to know:
1=0 and 0=1 for an Inverter
0+0=0, 0+1=1, 1+0=1 and 1+1=1 for an so called OR-Gate
0+0=0, 0+1=0, 1+0=0 and 1+1=1 for an AND-Gate
0+0=1, 0+1=0, 1+0=0 1+1=1 for an Exclusive OR-Gate
No more, no less
You watch your porn with this, you store your reaction pics with this and you play your vidya with this

>>38043222
>thinking
You gotta be dumb to say such thing.

>>38045199
what the fuck are you talking about, what are gates and how do the numbers relate to each other? It looks to me like they're conditions but your explanation is shit

we
LITERALLY
have magical sandscreens that let us talk instantly to people across the world

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>>38044842
>Shannon was born in Petoskey, Michigan and grew up in Gaylord, Michigan.

>>38044790
>A bunch of different people at a bunch of different times in history were doing a bunch of different things and all of those fields came together in the 1930s and 1940s to make modern computers.
>People like Babbage and Turning were figuring out the maths behind how a machine can process numbers automatically. Bell Labs was playing around with transistors and realized you could do the maths described above using them.
>Claude E. Shannon was working on how to more efficiently transmit voices over telephone lines, and used the concepts from thousands of years of telecommunications (such as signal houses, telegraphs, morse code) to come up with the idea of reducing voices to a series of blips, or On and Off, 0 and 1. Other people quickly realized just how incredibly useful this idea was for communication information using the calculating machines described above, and things kept progressing from there.
This gave me chills to read and I teared up a little.

ya know what man, this thread just derailed my hyperloop. Everyone talking about 1's and 0's don't even mention quantum computing where they operate between the 1 and 0.

Just think, we are just carbon, iron, calcium, and a few other minerals capable of thought.

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>>38044489
Pic related is a functioning computer.
Once you understand the logic behind a large scale simpler version, you can just downscale it and add more complexity.

Complex things can be broken down into simpler steps like that. Once you understand a simple component of the system, you combine them together to make a more complicated component. You then put those components together to create an even more complicated system.
Eventually you end up with a super complicated system like that CPU diagram but being able to understand the whole thing because you created it by combining "simpler" components that you could understand.

It serves a purpose, a very complex one but a purpose none the less. Computers don't ''think'' when they compute anymore than a toaster thinks when it toasts bread.

>>38046088
processors aren't simply electrical components, they contain microcode as well; without that the actual hardware is nearly useless.

Not to mention the components are being made on the 7-14 nanometer size. NANOMETER. They're approaching the theoretical limit of physical production. Beyond about 5nm light will be unable to continue making transistors smaller and smaller.

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>>38045889
>gates
They are a combination of transistors (small electrical switches) but it's just an abstraction layer on top of the transistors to make it easier to build up circuits with them

>how do the numbers relate to each other
The numbers on te left hand side of the equals sign are the inputs of a gate
The result is the output of a gate
Let's take the AND-Gate for example
If we look into it there are two transistors next to each other in a row, that's important because if they were parallel they would be an OR-Gate
So both switches have to be turned on in order for the elecrtical current to pass them
If one is switched of (have the input 0) the current is stopped and the output or result is also 0

Now we look to the OR-Gate
Here the swiches are parallel and either one or the other have to be on (input 1) to let the current pass
If switch number one is off but switch number two is on the current goes over switch number two

This is where the numbers in my previous post come from

>your explanation is shit
Sorry, i just wanted to make it look trippy for the anon who asked for it

>>38046328
so it's basically the if, and, or etc conditionals in programming except in hardware form? it sounds simple enough, but it still does boggle my mind thinking about how someone came up with all this.

>>38046518
it wasn't someone it was many people over many years

>>38045199

An exclusive or gate is equal to one if the inputs are different