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

dragonwriter a month 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.

	▲	edoceo a month ago \| parent [-]
		IME folk were saying move it to the cloud, with the meaning of a manged provider, before 2005.

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lossolo a month 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.

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dboreham a month ago | parent | prev [-]

Before that it was on whiteboards.