INTRODUCTION

The terms information

technology and I.T are
widely used in business and
the field of computing..

A 1958 article in harvard

review referred to
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY as consisting
of three basic parts:
-computational data
processing
-decision support
-business software

DEFINITION
Information technology
refers to anything related
to computing technology,
such as networking,
hardware, software, the
internet or the people that
work with these
technologies.

A BREIF OF I.T HISTORY

The first giant calculators
digitally processing were
able to manipulate
numbers and expand to
digitize other, mostly
transaction-oriented
activities, such as airline
reservations.

the second major

quantitative and qualitative
leap occurred only when
work PCs were connected
to each other viaLocalArea
Networks (LANs)where
Ethernet became the
standardand then longdistance via Wide Area
Networks (WANs).

The next phase in the

evolution of the industry,
the next quantitative and
qualitative leap in the
amount of data generated
and how we use networked
computers, came with the
invention of the World Wide
Web (commonly mislabeled
as the Internet).