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I think you nailed it. We've been watching it happen for a while as browsers and web apps matured, but it's only in the last few years that the declining import

by mkr-hn 15y ago

I think you nailed it. We've been watching it happen for a while as browsers and web apps matured, but it's only in the last few years that the declining importance of local storage seemed so real. I actually can't think of a single thing I do on my laptop that depends on local storage. I even sync my Simcity 4 cities to a cloud service.

rbanffy 15y ago
In 2007 or so I got my work laptop stolen. All I lost were a couple changes in the code I was working on I made during a meeting with the client. After filing the police report, I dug out my old laptop, reinstalled it and checked the code out of my repo. The next day I was able to continue more or less from where I left off.