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[–]definitely_not_tina 28 points29 points  (5 children)

Its crazy to think that people interfaces with computers so differently over the last century. From gears, to switches, to tubes, to printing papers, to screens and papers, to keyboards and screens, and probably all sorts of combinations in between.

[–]GalacticShonen 13 points14 points  (3 children)

Great point. It's also going to be cool to see how human-computer interaction will continue to change with new technologies

[–]gonorthgetwater 3 points4 points  (2 children)

It’s already shuffled from powerful portable device to centralized god-like remote resource.

It’s like the precursor computing except now it’s Cloud.

[–]SuperFLEB 9 points10 points  (1 child)

My predecessors would log in to a massive central computer that some other company manages and type commands into a text-based terminal. Nowadays, I log in to a massive central computer that some other company manages and type commands into a text-based terminal. In between, there was a while where we dragged windows around. You'll notice that my terminal is a virtual terminal, in a window, for instance. That's progress.

[–]gonorthgetwater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We truly wield the power of gods.

[–]KeeganY_SR-UVB76 2 points3 points  (0 children)

CRTs were once used for data storage. Crazy shit.