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    Information technology (IT) involves using computers to store, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data or information. IT is considered a subset of information and communications technology and generally includes all computer hardware, software, and peripheral equipment operated by a limited user group. While humans have been manipulating information for thousands of years, the term "information technology" first appeared in a 1958 article to describe techniques for processing, applying statistical methods to decision making, and simulating higher-order thinking through computer programs. IT is commonly used synonymously with computers and networks but also encompasses other information distribution technologies like television and telephones.

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    Information technology (IT) involves using computers to store, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data or information. IT is considered a subset of information and communications technology and generally includes all computer hardware, software, and peripheral equipment operated by a limited user group. While humans have been manipulating information for thousands of years, the term "information technology" first appeared in a 1958 article to describe techniques for processing, applying statistical methods to decision making, and simulating higher-order thinking through computer programs. IT is commonly used synonymously with computers and networks but also encompasses other information distribution technologies like television and telephones.

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    Information technology (IT) involves using computers to store, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data or information. IT is considered a subset of information and communications technology and generally includes all computer hardware, software, and peripheral equipment operated by a limited user group. While humans have been manipulating information for thousands of years, the term "information technology" first appeared in a 1958 article to describe techniques for processing, applying statistical methods to decision making, and simulating higher-order thinking through computer programs. IT is commonly used synonymously with computers and networks but also encompasses other information distribution technologies like television and telephones.

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    Information technology

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    Not to be confused with Informatics or Digital technology.
    "IT" redirects here. For other uses, see IT (disambiguation).
    "Infotech" redirects here. For the Indian company, see Infotech Enterprises.
    Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to store, retrieve, transmit, and
    manipulate data,[1] or information, often in the context of a business or other enterprise.[2] IT is
    considered to be a subset of information and communications technology (ICT). An information
    technology system (IT system) is generally an information system, a communications system or,
    more specifically speaking, a computer system – including
    all hardware, software and peripheral equipment – operated by a limited group of users.
    Humans have been storing, retrieving, manipulating, and communicating information since
    the Sumerians in Mesopotamia developed writing in about 3000 BC,[3] but the term information
    technology in its modern sense first appeared in a 1958 article published in the Harvard Business
    Review; authors Harold J. Leavitt and Thomas L. Whisler commented that "the new technology does
    not yet have a single established name. We shall call it information technology (IT)." Their definition
    consists of three categories: techniques for processing, the application of statistical and
    mathematical methods to decision-making, and the simulation of higher-order thinking through
    computer programs.[4]
    The term is commonly used as a synonym for computers and computer networks, but it also
    encompasses other information distribution technologies such as television and telephones. Several
    products or services within an economy are associated with information technology,
    including computer hardware, software, electronics, semiconductors, internet, telecom equipment,
    and e-commerce.[5][a]
    Based on the storage and processing technologies employed, it is possible to distinguish four
    distinct phases of IT development: pre-mechanical (3000 BC – 1450 AD), mechanical (1450–
    1840), electromechanical (1840–1940), and electronic (1940–present).[3] This article focuses on the
    most recent period (electronic).

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