It wasn't, though, in 1995. Though it is perhaps less fashionable now, it was certainly something a lot of programs used at the time.

This is why I chose the word "anachronistic". It seems of another time, because it is. It's definitely hard to figure out what will and won't be timeless, but it isn't hard to look back with hindsight and point out things that definetely weren't.

Yes, and instead now we have devs forced to build SPAs and architect every single thing as a client-server app with a database attached. I get it, SaaS is great for vendor lock-in. But not every in-house tool needs to be run as a service.