Evolution of Development—How Did We Get Here?
Before discussing how you might build the applications to harness these emerging trends in information technology, it's important to look back at what brought us here. Here is a rather simplified snapshot of recent trends in information technology.
Pre-1980s: Here There Be Dragons
Before the PC revolution of the 1980s brought information technology to the masses, development for these systems was a jumble of mainframes, terminals, and proprietary systems. Developer tools were generally rudimentary, making application development an expensive and time-consuming process reserved for true bit-heads.
Late 1980s: Desktop Database Applications
After the PC revolution took hold, folks began to leverage the ...
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