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Not the entire time. The original computer architecture was big central processors that took commands from remote consoles.
Personal Computing wasn't a thing until the late 1980s. Even then, it only lasted 20 years before the Internet enticed people back into Cloud Computing and SaaS.
Ffs, the whole appeal of the Internet browser window is that you just make requests from foreign systems and they do all the work, returning you the finished result. Client side code has been bad system design for decades.
Client side code is the only code you can have control over.
Viruses are client side
"Can have" != "Have all the time in every case"