The acronym ICT means Information and  COMMUNICATION Technology.

ICT refers to the technologies of the hardware and software that enable humans to communicate with one another.

There are four main periods in history of ICT evolution which are;

1. Premechanical period

2.Mechanical period

3. Electromechnaical period

4.Electronic period

The development of the pre-mechanical period can be TRACED in the 3000 BCE-1450CE.

During this period,human beings were communicating with one another using words and pictograms drawn on rocks.

They then started to write symbols in stone tablets to depict pictures that were images for animals,ideas and objects.

Storing of information on paper was revolutionized when paper was produces from the papyrus plant.

Human beings then started communicating through writing on papers,which grew into large books which led to the establishment of libraries.

Libraries were then considered as the first data centers in history.

Numerical information also SPREAD faster in the world ENABLING human beings to make calculations simpler and more organized.

Abucus then developed a counting device that is similar to the current calculator to count and collect information.

Since then ,a lot of technological inventions have been made such as inventions of various types of computers that have helped the world to be ICT enabled.

It is so evident that all th technologies we are using in the modern days are as a RESULT of the early humans ideas.