ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Digital artifact

Hey kiddo! Have you ever taken a picture with a camera or used a tablet to draw a picture? Well, those pictures you take or draw on a tablet are called digital artifacts!

Digital artifacts are things that are created or stored on a computer or other digital device. They can be pictures, videos, music, or even documents like your homework!

Now, let's talk about how these digital artifacts are made. When you take a picture with a camera, the camera turns the picture you see into tiny little bits of code that a computer can understand. This code is called digital data.

When you save that picture on your computer, you are saving all that digital data. When you want to look at your picture again, your computer takes all that digital data and turns it back into the picture you took.

Sometimes, things can go wrong with this digital data, and you can end up with something called a digital artifact. An artifact can be a glitch, distortion or blurry spot in a picture. It happens because some part of the digital data got messed up or lost.

So, that's what a digital artifact is, kiddo! They are a part of our world now that we have all this digital technology. It's kinda cool, huh?