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lossolo 15 hours ago

Yeah, that's baffling to me too. I started self-hosting my databases with MySQL 21 years ago, before the cloud even existed.

edoceo 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Before the cloud? More than 21 years ago that damn cloud icon was in every Visio network diagram.

dragonwriter 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The popularity of the cloud icon in diagrams well precedes the term “cloud computing” being coined for on-demand scalable (usually, but not always, remote-hosted) infrastructure and services that accompanied the explosion of such services in about the mid-00s.

lossolo 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Before the cloud?

Yes, the cloud, in the modern sense (as in, on-demand scalable infrastructure like AWS), was just beginning to emerge back then, AWS launched S3 and EC2 in 2006 so 19 years ago. Other cloud services followed over the next several years.

dboreham 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Before that it was on whiteboards.