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In short: Danger (of Sidekick fame, had to look that up actually) was running an embedded JVM that for a while had its own bespoke RTOS underneath before switch
by usrusr 6y ago
In short: Danger (of Sidekick fame, had to look that up actually) was running an embedded JVM that for a while had its own bespoke RTOS underneath before switching to NetBSD.
Before going up in the flames of a brand-wide cloud data loss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sidekick_data_loss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sidekick_data_loss
(I didn't expect contemporary headlines to already have the term cloud)
- Izkata 6y ago> I didn't expect contemporary headlines to already have the term cloud Back when I was in middleschool/highschool in 2000-2006, my dad regularly brought home Information Week magazines, which had plenty of ads and articles about cloud computing.
- dboreham 6y agoI first heard Cloud used in the modern sense when Loudcloud's name was selected, which would have been some time in late 1999. But we had used the terms cloud in white board discussions for years before, drawing a "cloud" to represent "services that we get from somewhere on the net". So using the word cloud in a company name seemed fitting and not particularly novel, at the time.
- betenoire 6y agoIn 2008 my masters thesis (that I didn't finish) was based on a project I'd called "fog", to bring the cloud back down to us. The term was definitely widespread by then.