Cloud Computing: Back to the Future

Grazed from CMSWire.  Author: Marisa Peacock.

We may as well admit it, cloud computing has been changing our lives for some time now. When was the last time you didn’t save something to iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive or Box? Most, if not all of your information lives somewhere in the ether. Hard drives may come and go, but thanks to the cloud, your life can go on, practically unscathed.

However, if you’re thinking that the cloud is a relatively new phenomenon, think again. Recently, Symantec released an interactive timeline that illustrates the history of cloud computing — highlighting just how far we’ve come…

1950’s: Time-Sharing

Since the 1950s, academics and large companies were able to interact concurrently with a single computer. The practice, known as time-sharing, dramatically lowered the cost of providing computing capability, making it possible for individuals and organizations to use a computer without owning one, and promoted the interactive use of computers and the development of new interactive applications…

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