So were going backwards to a world where there are basically 5 computers running everything and everyone is basically accessing the world through a dumb terminal.Even though the digital slab in our pockets has more compute than a roomful of the early gen devices. Hopefully critical infrashifts back to managed metal or private clouds - dont see it though with the last decades of cloud evangalism to move all legacy systems to the cloud doesnt look like reversing anytime soon.

Yeah it's crazy to realize it takes a room of electronics for me to get my (g)mail. The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?

I agree considering all the Cloudflare AWS Azure apologists I see all around... Learning AWS already is the #1 tip on social media to "become employed as a dev in 2025 guaranteed" and I always just sigh when seeing this. I wouldnt touch it with a stick.