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Written by Bill Moore, CEO & Founder TL;DR In Part 1 of this series, I looked at how computing and telecommunications gradually became what we now call Enterprise IT. That change did not happen because someone decided to merge two departments. It happened because the technologies, the systems, and the work they supported became too interconnected to describe separately.

There was a time when “Information Technology” wasn’t a department, an industry, or even a common business term. In the 1970s and 1980s, computing and telecommunications were largely separate disciplines. Computers processed information. Telecommunications moved information. Most systems operated independently, often serving specific departments or business functions. Then those worlds began to converge. Organizations started connecting computers through networks.