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🗓️ On this day in tech – Nov 10, 1983
Microsoft introduced Windows 1.0 — its first graphical interface for PCs. 🖥️

It brought menus, tiled windows, and mouse support for the first time — a big step that changed how we used computers. 💡

💡 Before Cloud Computing, There Was Timesharing (1950s)

Back in the 1950s, computers were giant machines that only one person could use at a time. Then came a man named Fernando J. Corbató, who changed everything.

He introduced timesharing — a system that let many people use one computer at the same time.

Instead of everyone owning their own computer, people connected their terminals (screen + keyboard) to a single main computer.
That computer divided its time among users so fast that each person felt like they had their own personal computer.

💭 Sounds familiar?
That’s exactly how cloud computing works today.
We connect our devices to massive servers (like Google, AWS, or OpenAI) and share their power, storage, and intelligence.

So next time you open Google Docs or ChatGPT, remember — it all started with a 1950s idea called Timesharing 💻

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