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Information Technology

Computers are used in information technology (IT) to generate, process, store, retrieve, and exchange many types of data and information[1]. Unlike personal or recreational technology, IT is primarily used in the context of commercial operations. [2] Information and communications technology includes IT (ICT). [3] An information technology system (IT system) is typically an information system, a communications system, or, more specifically, a computer system, complete with all peripheral devices, software, and hardware, that is used by a small number of IT users. 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 noted that although humans have been storing, retrieving, manipulating, and communicating information since the development of the earliest writing systems[4] "The name of the new technology has not yet been given. It will be referred to ...