This document provides a historical overview of the development of information and knowledge management as industries. It discusses how village information evolved into large knowledge industries driven by three main developments: 1) technological advances like the internet that enabled new communication methods, 2) new management theories, and 3) the realization that organizations were losing internal information not documented in files. The need to manage both internal and external information led to the establishment of information and knowledge as profitable industries with their own economic rules and practices. This resulted in the need for trained knowledge management professionals, which is why information management courses exist today.