
Switches, routers, servers are more GUI friendly, wireless is in abundance in many buildings. We made do with what we had.įast forward 15 years to a time where nearly everyone has a smartphone, fast laptop, or a tablet. Thin laptops were too much for a lot of IT budgets, Palm was just getting started, and tablets were luxury items (yes we had tablets).

Laptops were still bulky back then and I loathed carrying around my brick of a laptop to connect into things. When I started in systems administration back in the mid 90’s everything was done either remoted in from your desktop, a server, or you plugged a terminal into the back of the server. Quite a fitting quote if I say so myself. Change is constant” Benjamin Disraeli 1867.

“Change is inevitable in a progressive society.
