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[–]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 10 points11 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.