Dumb terminals. Just like the Motorola X-Window ones I briefly used in the early 90s, that essentially were doorstoppers without a connection to their central s

Dumb terminals. Just like the Motorola X-Window ones I briefly used in the early 90s, that essentially were doorstoppers without a connection to their central server. There were technical reasons behind the adoption of that kind of infrastructure back then as processing power and storage were extremely costly, but today there's no reason to go back that route if not for pure and simple greed.