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@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 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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