A paradigm shift is occuring?
With the advent of cloud computing and the arrival of services such as Amazon’s EC2 and S3, Google’s App Suite and Microsoft’s Azure Services Platform coupled with the release of Google’s Chrome OS, is this the beginning of the end for traditional operating system as we know and love? If Google are to be believed in a recent article, the answer is yes.
Perhaps cloud computing could be seen as an evolution of older ways of delivering applications, such as the Time-sharing model of computing, made popular in the 1960′s?
1968 – The year of the hyperlink and powerpoint!
It may seem a little unlikely but a lot of what we now take for granted in our day to day dealings with computers can be seen in a 1968 demonstration in San Francisco.
The demo in question involved computer scientist Douglas Engelbart giving a presentation in which he used a mouse to manipulate a pointer on a screen, used a wysiwyg editor which could be seen as the forerunner to the modern dtp package and even computer generated slides (powerpoint anyone?).
All this forty years ago to the day, amazing stuff!
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