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Acquired

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The Origin of Cloud Computing and IT Infrastructure

The Apple spin out that invented the iPhone 20 years before the iPhone also wanted to have the internet sort of barely existed. So I don't think they thought of it as the internet, but a distributed, always accessible back end IT infrastructure for all the services that were going to be on the mobile device. Do you know the origin of the term cloud as applied to IT infrastructure? Oh, I do not.

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