RE: History of the IT industry

["Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>]

I generally enjoyed the "history" but was a bit disappointed to see the
focus of the survey shift from inventions to economics in the most
recent decades.

Leonard

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Most of this "history" looks like a reach to me.
The phonograph and the radio when there are 
people working in computers and software 
posting to this very list who don't "recognize" 
themselves as part of the "IT industry?"  Why 
not just start off by claiming cave paintings, 
wet clay and the sharpened stick?

Gene Kim-Eng

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael West" <mbwest -at- bigpond -dot- com>
> Here's an interesting site that cites the invention of the slide rule
in
> 1625 as a starting point for the history of IT.
> 
> That's debatable. I would have thought the invention of the pocket
protector
> worthy of a mention.
> 
> But anyway, from a cursory reading it is clear that by the 1950s we
were
> well into IT as we would recognize it today.
> 
> 
> http://www.caslon.com.au/itindustry/itdates1.htm

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