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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
I mean its not that deep is it? It just become more and more manual the further you go back until you hit the first calculators that were programmed with punch cards. Eventually cards were replaced with other types of storage and keyboards as inputs. Which allowed for human readable inputs that could then be interpreted.
Even your title isn’t the true beginning. Before the terminal, there was just a printer. Teletype, was it?
