HISTORY OF ICT

(Information and
Communication Technology)
 Information technology has been around because there were always ways of
communicating through technology available at that point in time.
 PREMECHANICAL

 Earliest age of information technology.

 Communication was through simple picture
drawings (petroglyphs).
 Pens and paper
 Papyrus and scrolls
 Numbering systems (calculator/abacus)
 MECHANICAL

 Certain connections between our current technology

and its ancestors.
 Analog computers
 Slide rule, Pascaline, Difference engine
 ELECTROMECHANICAL

 Closer to our modern day technology.

 Beginnings of telecommunication.
ELECTROMECHANICAL
 ELECTRONIC

 What we currently live in.

 4 main sections of digital computing
 Era of vacuum tubes and punch cards
 Transistors and magnetic tapes (magnetic cores)
 Integrated circuits
 Central Processing Units with memory, logic, and control circuit on a single chip; graphical user interface
(GUI)
1st Generation
2nd Generation
3rd Generation
4th Generation