Messages antiquities handed us a very limited set of such funds. Some masterpieces of architecture and religious buildings, monuments of urban planning, surviving only because of natural disasters (Pompeii at the foot of Vesuvius). Some of the items speak, fragments of weapons and tools, carried over in our time through archaeological excavations. What else? Ancient rock paintings, canvas paintings later, ancient sculpture, after miraculously surviving, barbarian invasions, the Persian and Ottoman conquests. Vehicles? Izedennye rzhoy, they disappear without trace in a few decades after the technical idea in the metal. Disclosure of information in its pure form? Scrolls of ancient epic, chronicles? They rewrite many times that many to begin to treat them with doubt. Academician Anatoly Fomenko, suitable to the problems of history with mathematical scrupulously, the transfer of information to run only with Guttenberga era. Indeed, when the information technology consisted of pen and ink, distortions (and even more so, their own compositions stories for the sake of the next monarch) were inevitable. That day a distant XVI century when replacing the goose came peru printed machine, can be considered the beginning of an era of modern information technology.
Typewriter - famous Underwood, which today can be found only in the museum, came later, only in the XIX century, a century later became the subject of a cult, precursor of the Internet era of free information exchange. Today, when mankind obscheistorichesky part in a process called informatization, the production of information becomes perhaps the core of its activities. Information has become the principal resource for scientific, technical and socio-economic development of the world community. The free flow of information significantly affects the development of science, technology and the different economic sectors, plays an important role in the upbringing, education and cultural communication between people.
Information technology represents a material basis of information technologies, through which the collection, storage, transmission and processing of information.
With regard to the transfer of information, it - again, if we look deep into history - initially implemented primitive alarm, and at long distances - sending a hand with depeshami, gontsov with birch Diplomas and without him. If the time brooks, in the way mail is sent dilizhans. If the information - Emergency work gontsa became dangerous to life. About gontse, overcome the distance of 42.5 kilometers (from Marathon to Athens) and the dead at the foot of the Acropolis recall later millennium.