The idea of renting time on someone else's computing equipment goes back at least to the 1930s. https://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2011/09/did-the-us-governmen

The idea of renting time on someone else's computing equipment goes back at least to the 1930s. https://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2011/09/did-the-us-government-kill-cloud-computing-over-50-years-ago.html https://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2011/09/did-the-us-govern...