Similar to how the term ‘digital’ has shifted from doing numeric calculations and storage to how it’s used today, referring to content you purchase and stream or download from the internet.
Terminology changes over time, and I’m not sure that I like some of the changes. 🤷
I’m sobbing over here because apparently most of the world doesn’t know we already had our “dumb terminal” phase.
Back in 2005, I worked in a rural hospital who still had the ancient monolithic NCR server (non operational, but still there. It was the size of 4 refrigerators stacked side by side,) and a storeroom full of the old dumb terminals.