Wait, we had networking like that in the 70s? I’ve never heard that, do you have any other specific information I can look up? A computer at a school talking to another school remotely to use its processing power in the 70s sounds like alternate reality. That’s literally just the internet. What were they pushing the data over? Surely not phone lines?
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ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 days agoIf you dug into history - with computers in the 70s-80s, we used to remotely dial into another computer. The terminal at your school (as home computers were pretty expensive) would dial into a stronger computer and you’d use up their resources.
Every few years, I see that mentality coming back. Cloud computing. Chromebooks. Remote desktops. Stadia and gaming on-demand.
Its fascinating.
FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 4 days ago
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing
Terminals sent keystrokes to the mainframe, and the mainframe sent text back to the terminal. They used modems and serial connections
FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Cooooollllllll!
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
Yup, it’s why ASCII has weird characters like “carriage return” and “bell”
GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
People also know what cloud gaming means now.
If that device loses service, it’s just a fancy paper weight until some nerd on GitHub spends a month rooting it and writing homebrew.