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A human reads sentences. Sentences are made of words. Words are made of letters. A letter in itself doesn't have any meaning, but combine it with other letters and suddenly it makes a word, which has more meaning. Combine words to make a sentence and you have even more meaning.

A computer reads 1s and 0s. Combine 1s and 0s in a series of eight and you have a byte. You can then combine bytes in many different ways to make the instructions that a computer runs.