#i find https://stackoverflow.com/a/56269857 to be a good explanation.

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(sorry if youve learned these things since your reblog. ive just been going through the notes lol)

i dont have a resource i can share with you, but i am willing to help answer your questions.

"ive never used a computer before, just a laptop (which im like 60% sure isnt the same)" a laptop is a computer! but what most people would call a computer is a tower pc, big chunky things that you may have used at school, with a separate keyboard, mouse, and monitor. and these arent the same as laptops. if youre running windows or mac, youre on a computer. and things you learn on a laptop will also apply to these big tower pcs.

"i dont know what a file is" a file is any single thing on your computer. an image is a file, an app is a file, a song is a file, a pdf is a file. pretty much everything stored on a computer is a file - or multiple files working together.

now, i mentioned PDFs. but what is a pdf? this will be the most complicated answer here. different files have to be stored differently. you can think of it kinda like text vs sheet music. we cannot really write down (save) music in text, so we created a different way of writing it down that works for sheet music. but we cant use sheet music to write down text. its the same with files. you cannot save music to a text file, and you cannot save text to a music file. to tell the computer how to read a file, we give it a "file extension". if its music, we can give it the "mp3" extension. if its text, we can give it the "txt" extension. PDF is just another of these extensions. its used for documents (thats what the D stands for in PDF). so a government report may be shared as a PDF, or a book, or one of many things. PDFs are very versatile. different extensions can be used for the same thing. "gif", "webp", "jpg", and "png" are all different ways of storing images, for example. to see the extension of a file, look at its filename. there will be a chunk of text, then a dot, then the extension. as an example im currently listening to a file called "acdc-hells-bells.opus". the "acdc-hells-bells" part is called the "basename" of the file (no one except techies know this), and the "opus" is the extension. opus is an extension for music. you can google "opus extension" or similar to check this for yourself.

Technological literacy only exists in a very slim age demographic of people born from roughly 1980 to roughly 2007