CeBIT

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CEBIT
Logo
Status	Defunct
Genre	Computer Expo
Frequency	Annually
Venue	Hanover fairground
Location(s)	Hanover
Country	Germany
Inaugurated	1970
Most recent	2018
Attendance	120,000 (2018)[1]
Organized by	Deutsche Messe AG
Website	www.cebit.de

CeBIT was a computer expo which, at its peak^[when?], was the largest and most internationally representative. The trade fair was held each year on the Hanover fairground, the world's largest fairground, in Hanover, Germany. In its day, it was considered a barometer of current trends and a measure of the state of the art in information technology. It was organized by Deutsche Messe AG.^[2]

With an exhibition area of roughly 450,000 m² (4.8 million sq ft) and a peak attendance of 850,000 visitors during the dot-com boom, it was larger both in area and attendance than its Asian counterpart COMPUTEX and its no-longer held American equivalent COMDEX. CeBIT is a German language acronym for Centrum für Büroautomation, Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation,^[3] which translates as "Center for Office Automation, Information Technology and Telecommunication".

The final CeBIT took place in 2018.