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Initially I was a bit confused about the transition from where they were talking about the rain cloud to where they started talking about the history of the Int
by codetrotter 8y ago
Initially I was a bit confused about the transition from where they were talking about the rain cloud to where they started talking about the history of the Internet, but I enjoyed it nonetheless and I don’t get why the story was flagkilled.
To me it seems that actually the story about the cloud was meant to be an introduction to the remainder of the text.
The story is about how “the cloud” where we put our data is an abstract concept and that even those of us that know about data centers and servers and so on, most of us know very little about the concrete physical locations of every data center and where the individual fiber lines go in the US.
The way the introduction was done however made it seem like the point of the article was to talk about the neurological cloud that had formed in that Facebook data center. And of course they made the matters worse by then picking the title to be about that as well.
But like I said, I think it was an interesting read.