Before the days of GUIs when regular office workers used the command line, the database was an all-in-one application. Stored procedures were created by the DB

Before the days of GUIs when regular office workers used the command line, the database was an all-in-one application. Stored procedures were created by the DB admin so that the non-techies could run reports with simple commands. I've found it interesting that all of this functionality has remained in databases, but is almost never used in modern web applications.