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I think this is roughly it:
- Magnetic beads manually strung on a thread, each one representing a single bit
- Punch cards/tapes
- Single-line text editors, for use on a teletype (a-la
edorqed- which still somewhat alive assed) - Multi-line, or “visual” editors, for use on the terminal (a-la
vi) - Modern IDEs
Even your title isn’t the true beginning. Before the terminal, there was just a printer. Teletype, was it?
