What is the Drupal 7 Dashboard?

When you login to a Drupal site, the very first link you will see in the admin bar is “Dashboard”.
Even though it’s the first link, few people seem to use it, perhaps because they don’t fully understand what it does. Perhaps as a result, the Dashboard won’t be included in Drupal 8.
In this video, taken from our Better Drupal Administration class, Robert explains what the Dashboard does. It really can be a helpful control panel for users of small sites.
“… Dashboard won’t be included in Drupal 8. …” 🙁
Probably we can re-build the functionality and purpose, since backend is powered by Views?!
Yes, that’s right. Almost the whole D8 admin uses Views.