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Natothedog t1_iura8vm wrote

Style of tech is… tech definitely is not. Open to be proven wrong but name one common invention that has regressed back to its roots.

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4myoldGaffer t1_iurawb7 wrote

If you want to play a record more than once, you must regress to the beginning of the album.

Hopefully your opinion is revolving as you begin to scratch the surface of the joke

Silly

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Natothedog t1_iurcywz wrote

Ah, you were just trying to make a funny. Excuse me for being a rock 🪨

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4myoldGaffer t1_iure9oa wrote

so you’re saying it’s ok for me to throw my pager in the bin finally?

☺️

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RockeTim t1_iurnt8c wrote

Cloud computing! In the early days of computers (40s, 50s) they were the size of a small house and insanely expensive - to make computers more accessible to schools, businesses, universities, libraries, etc... they used terminals. Terminals were dumb - basically a glorified kvms - keyboard, monitor, and that was it - no real capabilities or storage - and they connected to the remote computers for all computation. Fast-forward to today. Chromebooks, and game streaming services, are the same idea. You don't need a powerful computer with lots of storage and powerful GPU. All the work is done on a remote computer - and our device acts basically a glorified kvm just like the early days of terminal computing.

Edit: typos

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