[Air-L] Historical Origins of the Cloud

[Elijah Wright]

My query:

>> Happen to know the history of where the nomenclature for EC2 came from?
 A guy on AIR-L  (internet research list) was asking for historical info
>> about where the 'cloud' terminology came from.  Just wondered - and
figured you might know who should be getting asked.  :-)

My source's response:

> It's not so interesting ;) -- it actually started as "utility computing",
and it just kind of got named "cloud" because of you know, the visio thing.

> So basically, some dude just coined it and I guess it stuck.  I would ask
Chris Pinkham for the official answer, if you wanted to know who to reach
out to.


Hope this helps.  It at least validates that you're on a good track and
should persevere.

(Chris Pinkham is CEO at Nimbula.com, nowadays...)

--e


On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Elijah Wright <elijah.wright at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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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