ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Terminal speaker

A terminal speaker is like a little box that can make noises. It's like a musical instrument, but instead of playing with your hands, you send it instructions through a computer program called a terminal. It's kind of like how a piano player reads sheet music to know what keys to press.

Think of your terminal speaker like a piano that can only play one note at a time. When you send it instructions through your terminal, it knows what noise to make and how long to make it. You can use it to make all sorts of noises like beeps, boops, chimes, and even music if you can figure out the right instructions to send it.

So basically, a terminal speaker is a little device that listens to what you tell it to do through your computer and then makes sounds based on those instructions. Pretty cool, huh?