Development of

Information Technology

Development of IT

#Great technological advances have been made since the days when computers were huge pieces of equipment that were stored in big, air conditioned rooms, getting their information from punch cards. 

#In this chapter, we will see some of the development of IT from stand-alone computer, mainframe, client-server network, distributed computing and up to the latest trend which is the cloud computing

STAND ALONE COMPUTER

What is a stand-alone computer?

§A desktop or laptop computer that is

used on its own without requiring a 

connection to a network.