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Yes. I have thought about this a lot. There are cycles...

Like thin client (VT100), to thick (client/server desktop app), to thin (browser), etc.

Similarly, console apps (respond to a single request in a loop), to event-driven GUI apps, to HTTP apps that just respond to a simple request, back to event-driven JS apps.

It depends on how you define the boundaries, but history rhymes.




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