You're right. In 1996 my home directory was stored on an Andrew File System folder that allowed me to securely authenticate from untrusted networks using Kerbe

You're right. In 1996 my home directory was stored on an Andrew File System folder that allowed me to securely authenticate from untrusted networks using Kerberos, and then access my files remotely, from multiple machines, and it used local cache used to keep things speedy. It was incredibly strange that these sorts of capabilities weren't meaningfully commercialized, even though they were ridiculously useful.