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During the 1960s, the punched card was gradually replaced as the primary means for data storage by magnetic tape, as better, more capable computers became available. Mohawk Data Sciences introduced a magnetic tape encoder in 1965, a system marketed as a keypunch replacement which was somewhat successful, but punched cards were still commonly used for data entry and programming until the mid-1980s when the combination of lower cost magnetic disk storage, and affordable interactive terminals on less expensive minicomputers made punched cards obsolete for this role as well.<ref>Aspray (ed.), W. (1990). Computing before Computers. Iowa State University Press. p. 151. {{ISBN|0-8138-0047-1}}.</ref> However, their influence lives on through many standard conventions and file formats.<ref>Lubar, Steven (1993). InfoCulture: The Smithsonian Book of Information Age Inventions. Houghton Mifflin. p. 302. {{ISBN|0-395-57042-5}}.</ref>

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In the 2010s, the wide adoption of mobile devices and the rise of 3G, 4G, and 5G networks<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.emarketer.com/Article/eMarketer-Updates-Worldwide-Internet-Mobile-User-Figures/1015770|title=eMarketer Updates Worldwide Internet and Mobile User Figures - eMarketer|website=www.emarketer.com|language=en|access-date=2018-11-11}}</ref> worldwide has made it possible to approach the task of scheduling differently. In the last decade, many software solutions have sprung up to make the lives of business owners and managers easier and less burdensome.