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February 16, 2006 at 10:28 PM
garion11

What is IT?

by garion11 . Updated 20 years, 4 months ago

Here I am sitting down at my PC on my humble little network at 1:00 AM and this question pops into my head. What is IT? We talk about it, we live it, we work it, we sleep it, we breathe it, but what the hell is IT? Can anyone define this for me? Yeah..yeah Information Technology indeed…but thats just too simple of an answer though, isn’t it?

Networks, databases, programming, Linux (the little OS that still can’t), Windows (the big OS that tried and failed miserably) whoa! hey now pardner, we are getting too technical. Is that IT? Are we the geeks of the world who work with other geeks and tinker with toys made by more geeks? Is that all IT is? A BIG GEEK FEST? Holy hard drive of a motherboard! *GASP!!!*

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-11181-0.html?forumID=6&threadID=189725&start=0

This fascinating discussion at the above link lead me to this question. IT sucks!, some scream! IT rules!, others screech! and that all equals mass confusion for the newbies and drunks like myself. Pray do answer this question. What is IT? A professional industry accepted definition and hopefully a rabid hate filled discussion ensues afterwards.

Cheers!

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