Viper1 on 10 January 2014
| Ssenkahdavic said: I would bet some marketing person took a Cisco networking class, saw the depiction of the Internet as a "cloud" and started the buzz. I have a 20 year old lab guide that has it depicted as such. He'll I have an old IBM token ring book from the 80s that uses a cloud for the lan. It's a symbol to mean networking in the place of a full topology diagram. |
Pretty much how it started. The WAN outside of the LAN you cotnrol (the Internet) was depicted by a cloud icon in charts, network diagrams, schematics and graphics since the early 90's and possibly even in the 80's. Amazon, I believe, was the first to use the term commercially as part of a service package.
The basics of Cloud computing itself though has been around since the 50's with mainframes and terminals.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
