[Air-L] Historical Origins of the Cloud

[Elijah Wright]

It was "grid computing" before this.  And "Beowulf clusters" before that.

I'll ask an Amazon-ite I know if he happens to know where the name "elastic
compute cloud" came from for EC2.

best,

--e



On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Trevor Croker <tcroker at vt.edu> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am currently trying to track down the historical origin of the term
> "cloud computing." So far, I have only come across speculation that the
> cloud imagery was used in computer textbooks and slowly adopted into the
> computing lexicon.
>
> Any suggested resources or guidance would be very much appreciated.
>
> Best,
> Trevor Croker
> PhD Candidate in the Science and Technology Studies Program at Virginia
> Tech
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