What an incredible article. More than its impressive documented scope and detail, I love it foremost for conveying what the zeitgeist felt at each point in history. This human element is something usually only passed on by oral tradition and very difficult to capture in cold, academic settings.
It’s fashionable to dunk on “how did all this cloud cruft become the norm”, but seeing a continuous line in history of how circumstance developed upon one another, where each link is individually the most rational decision at their given context, makes them an understandable misfortune of human history.
It’s fashionable to dunk on “how did all this cloud cruft become the norm”, but seeing a continuous line in history of how circumstance developed upon one another, where each link is individually the most rational decision at their given context, makes them an understandable misfortune of human history.