We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you don't already know how computers work, it may seem like an unapproachable subject. It's the kind of high-level science and math that ...

Each digit in binary is called a bit, and 8 bits make up a byte. Behind each byte is an instruction or character. The binary system was invented by Gottfried Leibniz at the end of the 17th century, ...