• Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    If I had to guess, I think it started probably around the late 1930s, when the binary number system started to be used in mechanical computers.

    Of course, it finished today when the binary data for OP’s image was loaded on your phone, displayed, and you interpreted it.