# kaal:claim:3808852-007

**Claim.** The transition from client-server computing to peer-to-peer networking was the most significant step in the evolution of decentralized technology, because removing centralized hosts lets nodes make disk storage, bandwidth, and processing power directly available to each other.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> The transition from a traditional client-server computing architecture to a peer-to-peer networking architecture was the most significant step toward the evolution of decentralized technology.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization and Feedback Effects* (2021), Technological Decentralization, page 7

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852

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**Topics.** decentralization

**Keywords.** peer-to-peer, client-server, network-architecture, decentralized-computing

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- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808859-037

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