With bits and bytes, we delve more into whats behind the website Transport Orange as opposed to things that students would directly interact with. Bits and bytes are what make it possible to post anything digitally on the website, whether it be graphics or words or videos, etc. Needless to say, without those there wouldn't be much of a website would there?
The amount of space available for all of the information represented by bytes (one byte = 8 bits) is determined by the amount of memory the web site has to use. Bytes would also tie in perfectly if voice commands were made possible on the website. Human speech is analog, which means it uses continuous wave form signals. (And yes, I got that out of the textbook.) The only problem is, computers are digital. Thus, computers have to translate the sound waves into electronic code that it can easily process and convert into information before it can give a response. That's where the binary system comes in.
The binary system converts information into bytes with each digit being represented by a 1 or a 0. Depending on what the wave in the voice is, it will produce one digit or the other. The computer can then read those digits, translate them, and give a response. Obviously it is much more complicated than that, but it is impossible to deny that this system is pivotal to the creation of websites like Transport Orange. Without it, quite simply the website would not exist.
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