Saturday, April 7, 2007

What is IT?



IT, aka, Information Technology, is what I think the technology that is invented or created to share information.

What do I mean? Well, since very very long ago, our ancestors have already started the evolution of IT. The cavemen for example, they have use stones and other sharp materials, using the cave interior as a canvas, to carve out interesting chain of thoughts or happenings to dictate what happened during their era. Though unable to communicate using what commonly known as words, they transfered information using what they could do. To them, using sharp objects to carve on walls, was a technology in itself.

Then came other forms of interesting technologies. Such using bamboos, rocks, cloth, wood plank, sand, granite, etc as canvas, and inventing different types of writing materials to curve, chip or carve out symbols and pictorial equivalents to demonstrate a point.

And after so much evolution, we are using computers over Internet, to share our vital information. We are a lucky bunch of people, I feel, at least if we really want to write something, we do not have to look for chipping tools to share them. IT, it is GREAT.

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