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by andrewf 455 days ago
That might practically be where VNC finds usage today, but when it was introduced in the 90s, remote desktops were the intended use case.

"In the virtual network computing (VNC) system, server machines supply not only applications and data but also an entire desktop environment that can be accessed from any Internet-connected machine using a simple software NC." -- https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/attarchive/pub/docs/at... (1998)