i don't think you can truly understand the impact of cloud computing unless you were active in tech in the 90s

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Paying a fortune for a "leased line", and hosting your own rack of servers (dns, smtp, imap, apache, postgres, etc). Tape drives for backups.

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Oh, yes. The first apps I worked on used Oracle Forms or something like this, that allowed to generate web interfaces. Oracle was charging *per user* which was crazy for a web app.

Just having a free web server and database felt like such a huge unlock at that time