The History of Computing since 1980.

Topic: The History of Computing since 1980. Presenter Scott Granneman is going to break it down into decades. So, why talk about all that old stuff? "To understand "how we got here." is how all historians will point out that you want to know the history. What were the problems that we were trying to solve? We are living with the solutions...and the new problems caused by those solutions, so we should understand what was being attempted.

Back in January, Ed Howland told us about the "History of The Unix Shell". And, we learned the above usefulness of history. And in March, Scott started this series with "The History of Computing since 1968".
So, Scott will give us the decade by decade description of the important events & inventions in computing. And we understood what they have influenced in your problems today.

Back then, the push was to stop using those mainframe computers "in the clouds". Your data and your computing should be moved onto your physical desktop on that new, powerful desktop computer! Things have changed.

# Scott is a long time member and frequent presenter of SLUUG. He is the author of "The Linux Phrase Book" from O'Rieley Press.

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