> - So much (and I mean SOOO MUCH) money was spent on buying and maintaining the serverroom (no cloud, remember) - so you had to buy and amateurishly maintain a

> - So much (and I mean SOOO MUCH) money was spent on buying and maintaining the serverroom (no cloud, remember) - so you had to buy and amateurishly maintain all this super expensive hardware - usually on a standard, off-the shelf T1 line connection to the internet. This is not a thing of the past, migrating everything to the cloud is not advantageous to everyone. Even if it still does, you still are left with (edge) servers to maintain.