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Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by julian_t on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:24AM (#27591270)
Oh yes... IBM 3270 terminals sending fields from the screen back to the mainframe. The first time I came across a simple HTML form I wondered where I'd seen the idea before.

And as you say, there's definitely a cycle between "everything local" and "everything central".

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