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“Most users have servers in their homes and offices where they keep large stores of digital objects, including their software, databases, documents, music, movies, and virtual-reality environments... There are services to keep one's digital objects in central repositories, but most people prefer to keep their private information under their own physical control. [By 2009.]”
Inventor, futurist and author of The Age of Spiritual Machines
Said 1999Deadline Dec 31, 2009The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), Chapter 9 ('2009'); quoted by Fair Use Blog, December 31, 2009
The opposite happened: by 2009 consumers had overwhelmingly moved their media, mail and documents into centralized cloud services (Gmail, YouTube, iTunes, Facebook, Dropbox), and home servers remained a hobbyist niche.