The return of the dumb terminal....everything old is new again.
Yeah, but this time it's different! And Better! :-) /sarc
It's all cyclical.
I work with VMware. Explained what it was in rough sketches to my Dad, who replied, "Hmm. I did that 30 years ago on an old System 34".
4-5 years ago I was at a cloud computing afternoon seminar, and one of the guys started his talk with the statement (paraphrasing) “I used to be an Application Service Provider, then I did Software As A Service, and now I do Cloud Computing.”
Most of the room had been around for a while, so there was quite a bit of laughter.
The internet software will be updated so that our old systems will not function. And effectively cutoff unmonitored communications.
Why didn't someone see this coming?
Well put!
Now we'll have the WWI, World Wide Intranet.
“The return of the dumb terminal....everything old is new again.”
Yep. This has been tried at least five times in the last 17 years. Each time it has a new name, but the failure is the same no matter what the name. Funny thing though, the name of the neutered client never involved the words “terminal” or “dumb”. Guess marketing was WAY to smart to allow that to slip by.