Computer science may be stagnant, but practical applications of topics researched decades ago has flourished from small seeds into large forests. I am pretty s

Computer science may be stagnant, but practical applications of topics researched decades ago has flourished from small seeds into large forests. I am pretty sure that all research on stuff we are since the horizontal scaling has taken over have been researched 4+ decades ago and is only now is widely used... though when I looked, the CAP theorem is from 1998, so maybe not.