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"Dumb terminals" used to be popular, but economy-of-scale caught up, so commodity software, hardware, and networking became cheaper and easier. Around the early 2000's, I think. It's the same reason people say, correctly, "Your car has a computer, your microwave has a computer, everything has a computer now." Your microwave doesn't need a Turing complete von Neumann machine; it just happens that per unit, a trillion tiny processors are each cheaper than a hundred million microwave-logic-devices.it looked like they were using similar systems which drew a lot of computing power from a main hub
Didn't know they were independently functional.