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> If someone would put together some non-trivial demo, and get 100 non-technical people to speculate (in detail) on how they imagine it was made, I'd imagine the answers would be fascinating.

I've done a similar thought experiment over the years with (some very patient) non-technical friends, usually using some kind of mobile game on their phone...

They all more or less worked out the high-level concepts (events and listeners, input controls, the game loop, objects/models, persistence, networking, etc) but that was about it..

No one could even start to explain how it worked beyond that..