80s Get rid of all your office mainframes! We can put the power in each client with a PC! Decentralize everything! No more sharing a computer with everyone. 90

80s Get rid of all your office mainframes! We can put the power in each client with a PC! Decentralize everything! No more sharing a computer with everyone. 90s Fast ethernet lets us centralize everything. It's way easier to manage a server with a network of clients! 2000s All the clients are cheap and idle. P2P is the wave of the future. Who needs servers?! 2010s Cloud is here! Better to centralize everything in Amazon, Rackspace, <Generic_Cloudservice>. Leave nothing on the client!