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> App Engine was launched in 2008, before GCP, before docker and before Cloud was a term Cloud computing was a term at least as far back as 1999. We didn't hav
by js2 4y ago
> App Engine was launched in 2008, before GCP, before docker and before Cloud was a term
Cloud computing was a term at least as far back as 1999. We didn't have the technology quite right that soon, but we had the idea and the term:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opsware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opsware
https://www.wired.com/2000/08/loudcloud/ https://www.wired.com/2000/08/loudcloud/
Archived version of Wired article: https://archive.ph/TeLPQ https://archive.ph/TeLPQ
- gen220 4y agoI've heard that General Magic [1] were the originator of the phrase "Cloud" (compute & data distributed across heterogeneous hardware). I went digging and found an earlier WIRED article on General Magic, using the word a few times [2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic [2]: https://www.wired.com/1994/04/general-magic/ https://www.wired.com/1994/04/general-magic/
- pjmlp 4y agoSun's motto was "The network is the computer" actually. And back in the 2000s, CERN was having a go at their own cloud infrastructure, with the name of Grid Computing. http://cds.cern.ch/record/560415/files/cer-002318141.pdf http://cds.cern.ch/record/560415/files/cer-002318141.pdf