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From Monolithic to Grid. 3 Nov 2003: How did we get from there to here? The history of computing is marked by ages. In each age, the basic design of how we work with computers changes. Many people probably think we're in the brave new Internet age at this time, but considering the nature of computing, we're likely just at an intermediary stage. We're just now peeking into the next age — the age of the truly distributed computing system –he coming of the grid. [RootPrompt.org — Nothing but Unix]