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A joystick is what's known as a peripheral; it is plugged into the computer. A joystick is a piece of hardware.

Software, on the other hand, are the applications you run on your computer. For example, the web browser or music player.

An easy way to decide whether something is hardware or software is whether you can physically touch it; whether it exists in the real world.

A mouse is hardware, it is another peripheral plugged into the computer.

An instant messaging program is software, it exists only on the computer's system.

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