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efaref on Nov 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet and PC (197...

Most people only really use their computer as a terminal to connect (via HTTP) to a computer somewhere else (facebook.com).

digi_owl on Nov 28, 2014 [–]

Computing seems to be about reinventing the old in a more glossy exterior every other generation or so.

The "cloud" seems to be a new go at the virtualization uses that has been done on mainframes since the 70s. One may go as far as to say that the cluster rack is the mainframe v2.

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