Blit (computer terminal)

Okay kiddo, when you're using a computer, the screen that you see is made up of thousands of tiny little dots called pixels. Sometimes when we want to change what is being shown on the screen, we need to move a whole bunch of these pixels all at once. This is where something called "blitting" comes in!

Blitting is like when you take a sticker, put it on some paper, and then move the paper to a different spot. But instead of stickers and paper, blitting is something that happens inside your computer to make images and videos move around the screen really quickly.

It works like this: your computer stores images in its memory, which is like a big file cabinet where it keeps lots of different files. When we want to move an image, we tell the computer to take that image and "blit" it somewhere else on the screen. Blitting means that the computer takes all of the pixels from the image and copies them to a new spot on the screen really quickly.

This might sound like a simple thing to do, but it's actually pretty complicated! When we blit an image, we have to make sure that it gets moved to the right spot and that it looks the same as it did before. That's because if we moved an image and it looked all weird and squished, we wouldn't be able to play our video games or watch our favorite shows!

So, blitting is a really important computer technique that helps us move images and videos around the screen quickly and smoothly. And now, you're a little bit smarter about how it all works!