Zo: Personal Servers for Everyone
3 days ago
- #AI-future
- #computing-history
- #personal-servers
- Aboriginal songlines and cave paintings were early forms of information storage.
- IBM's first mass-produced computer in 1953 was expensive and difficult to program.
- Punch cards and paper tape were early methods of programming computers.
- Programming languages like FORTRAN and COBOL made computers more accessible in the 1960s and 1970s.
- The personal computer revolution began with Apple, making computing accessible to individuals.
- Modern computing is dominated by cloud services controlled by large corporations.
- The idealism of early personal computing and the web has been lost to corporate control.
- The vision for the future includes intelligent personal servers with open file formats and AI custody.