THE TRUNK / Eras

Six eras, one trunk.

Every era is written in the same order: first the background and the forces driving it, then the pain points of the time, and finally the new technology and practices that emerged to solve them.

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Connection Era

Letting different computers and networks talk to each other

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Web

Everyone can view web pages, and portals bring information online

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Community & Search Era

Users start producing content; search and e-commerce find ways to make money

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Mobile Era

The internet goes in your pocket; users and traffic explode

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Cloud & Intelligence Era

A shift from grabbing users to running operations precisely with data and algorithms, while compliance tightened across the board

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Large Model Era

Natural language became a new way to interact and to program

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