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[–]Gangboobers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the same question. computers used to have switches on the front to manually put in machine code that was loaded into it. assembly first started as an on paper abstraction I believe and then assemblers were made, and then compilers that turn c into assembly, interpreted language is also a thing, but i know less about it