News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future of tech to look like?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by treespace88 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:19AM (#27591942)
I call it the mainframe/desktop cycle.

The 90s was peak desktop. Everything was on the local hard drive.

Now everything is back on the mainframe(cloud) i fully expect it to cycle back to the desktop in some form. (we just won’t call it that)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by luismedel on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:00AM (#27592517)
Something like "Look at this new tech! It allows you to run your own local cloud. We call it 'fog computing' and works even when you're offline"

Edit: OMG! the term exists! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_computing

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future o... by ragnarok451 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:31AM (#27592940)
Maybe services using wasm will pull compute back to the desktop, even though end users won't realize it.
[ Parent | on HN ]