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by mnau 1363 days ago
Computer science may be stagnant, but practical applications of topics researched decades ago has flourished from small seeds into large forests.

I am pretty sure that all research on stuff we are since the horizontal scaling has taken over have been researched 4+ decades ago and is only now is widely used... though when I looked, the CAP theorem is from 1998, so maybe not.

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CAP:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem

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