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To start in a little loop the cloud isn’t actually in the clouds it gets its name from its creation…In the early nineties: Computer, scientists and engineers needed some way in their diagrams and slideshows to refer to “the network,” that big grouping of computers and storage devices out there somewhere. In other words, they needed some way to refer to something that was, essentially, somebody else’s problem… They settled on the Cloud.

You can see one of the earliest uses of that idea in this diagram from US Patent 5,485,455, “Network having secure fast packet switching and guaranteed quality of service,” filed in the January of 1994 that the “Network” bubble is cloud-like hence the name the cloud.