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In my mind, "the cloud" came into existence when it became practical to rent servers (virtual or physical) by the hour, rather than by the month. It's one of t
by wtracy 6y ago
In my mind, "the cloud" came into existence when it became practical to rent servers (virtual or physical) by the hour, rather than by the month.
It's one of those things where a difference in degree in implementation terms (leasing in smaller time increments) allowed a difference in kind in usage terms (on-demand server allocation over advance provisioning).