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by treespace88 1828 days ago
I call it the mainframe/desktop cycle.

The 90s was peak desktop. Everything was on the local hard drive.

Now everything is back on the mainframe(cloud) i fully expect it to cycle back to the desktop in some form. (we just won’t call it that)

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Something like "Look at this new tech! It allows you to run your own local cloud. We call it 'fog computing' and works even when you're offline"

Edit: OMG! the term exists! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_computing

Maybe services using wasm will pull compute back to the desktop, even though end users won't realize it.