Comment by CRConrad

> At a time when personal computing was very much the model, it was like someone had sent this software from the future.

The future, and mainly from the past: In the literal sense, it was derived from a mainframe application -- but above all, it carried with it that anti-personal centralised philosophy.

But yeah, from the future too: That's where we are (and have been for a good while now) headed back to, with all this "cloud"[1] stuff. The erstwhile PC is well on its way to becoming just a terminal again.

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[1]: There is no "cloud"; it's just other people's computers.