Thinking more about software pricing trends: boxed software was often £30+ when I was a kid. Paying that amount for a smartphone app seems expensive today.
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Running a package manager host for a popular language is really expensive. TIL that Python costs several million dollars per year!
When someone says "you should use the cloud", I'm never sure if they mean:
1: use a virtual server rather than running your own hardware, or
2: use hosted services rather than running your own e.g. database
2 is often surprisingly expensive IME.
The Rise of the Stupid Network: a remarkable 1997 essay on what ISPs as dumb bit pipes enables, moving innovation to client devices on the internet, and avoiding the scarcity mindset from when hardware was expensive:
https://www.hyperorg.com/misc/stupidnet.html