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Re:Fake Trees: Using Indents for Simpler UIs by twic on Saturday December 30, 2023 @07:16PM (#38820592)
I think it was:

1. The whole noSQL thing

2. A move away from databases as store of all knowledge to databases as implementation detail of applications, which IMHO was a good thing, but tended to make them smaller, simpler and more hidden away

Re:Fake Trees: Using Indents for Simpler UIs by osigurdson on Saturday December 30, 2023 @08:06PM (#38820878)
If only those PhDs in the 70s would have though about scale out.