History and Evolution of ICT

Living in the IT Era

The four main periods in history that divide the era of ICT, namely:

Pre-mechanical Era, Mechanical, Electromechanical, and Electronic period.

During this time, human started communicating with one another using words and pictograms curved in rocks

Pre-mechanical Era

dating back 3100 BCE that shows the earliest form of communication among humans.

Sumerian Pictogram

When does the pre-mechanical period happened?

1450 BCE - 1450 CE

What was considered as first data center in history?

Libraries

The most popular device created in this period is said to come from china.

Abacus

➢ The interest in automating and speeding up numerical calculations grew during this period.

➢ The machines are driven by mechanical means such as steam and gears dominated by information processing and calculation.

Mechanical Period

Father of Computers

Charles Babbage

Which is considered as the first programmable mechanical computer, was also invented during this period.

Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine

The mechanical calculator, ——- was the highlight of this period.

Pascaline