Those of us who have been around the IT block a few times have witnessed remarkable changes in hardware and software capabilities. The big ones are fairly obvious in hindsight: from mainframes to minicomputers in the 1960s; from minis to PCs in the 1980s; and from dumb terminals to client-server technology in the 1990s. For some of us, these shifts seemed like a big deal the first time we learned of them. For most, however, they crept into our perception more slowly. Multiple innovations were needed on top of the “big idea” to make it self-evident that “things are different now.”
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Posted by: Brett Adam March 26, 2011 05:00 AMThose of us who have been around the IT block a few times have witnessed remarkable changes in hardware and software capabilities. The big ones are fairly obvious in hindsight: from mainframes to minicomputers in the 1960s; from minis to PCs in the 1980s; and from dumb terminals to client-server technology in the 1990s. For some of us, these shifts seemed like a big deal the first time we learned of them. For most, however, they crept into our perception more slowly. Multiple innovations were needed on top of the “big idea” to make it self-evident that “things are different now.”