https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization It's a fancy name for turning internal program data into a stream of by

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization It's a fancy name for turning internal program data into a stream of bytes (thus the "serial" for "sequential") you can send to another program/computer or save to disk.