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Outside of Silicon Valley anything that has to do with a computer has always been called IT.
by rdouble 13y ago
Outside of Silicon Valley anything that has to do with a computer has always been called IT.
- bitwize 13y agoI always tell people I'm a developer; and IT is "did ye try tairnin' it off and back on again?"
- mynewwork 13y agoThis is entirely wrong. I've always thought one of the peculiarities about the UK is that they refer to all things computer as "IT" while the rest of the english-speaking world differentiates. I don't work in IT and I never will, it's a different job with a different skill set. I'm not tech support, a dba, or 'the network guy'. I'm a software engineer and I work in R&D.
- lostlogin 13y agoI'm not sure it is - in the same way the battle for the word >hacker< has been lost, I know that in New Zealand >IT< is a catch all that means someone does computer stuff.
- jiggy2011 13y agoIn the UK too. While I'm mainly a developer, most of the jobs I've worked have also involved being a defacto IT person. Thing is , I work with unix 99% of the time so when it comes to fixing driver problems in Windows 7 or whatever I'm just as clueless as the next man most of the time.
- Gormo 13y agoWell, outside "Silicon Valley" - i.e. the software industry itself - most programmers really do work in IT . The code they write is usually for use in internal operations, and not itself a product they ship to customers.
- papsosouid 13y agoI'm pretty far outside of silicon valley, and that hasn't been true here at all. IT has always meant help desk, sysadmins, network admins, etc. Developers could be in IT if they were developing internal tools for IT. But software development in the "make software to sell" was always separate. It has only been recently that people have started to call everything relating to computers IT.