There was a transition from the 80s to late 90s: until you had some kind of network, the important thing was to backup your machine. Daily if you can. Even if y

There was a transition from the 80s to late 90s: until you had some kind of network, the important thing was to backup your machine. Daily if you can. Even if you had been running a local revision control on your local machine, you wouldn't be protected enough, so backups were more important. Once networking and servers became more prevalent, it slowly made sense that backups turned into revision control. If your machine crashes, there is a remote repo you can connect to and get back to where you were.