Listening to people talk about the 00s like we barely invented fire is something else. There's been very little new in computing since the arpanet was invented. The cloud is someone's mainframe and we moved away from those for the same reason why government wants to leave the cloud.

Agreed. A lot of "new tech" are just cloud versions of what used to be on-premise services.

> There's been very little new in computing since the arpanet was invented.

Now there's a hot take!

I suppose for this assertion to work, you'd have to consider Arpanet orders-of-magnitude more sophisticated an advancement than modern gaming, blockchain, VR, LLMs with fully integrated real-time image processing... all just minor increments?

There's been very little actually useful new in computing since the arpanet was invented.

None of the shit you mentioned is a counterexample to that.

HTH!