"cloud technology" is "servers, VMs, containers" that is also SER (Somebody Else's Responsibility). Hence the term "cloud", as that was always used in network diagrams to refer to network connection infrastructure that wasn't yours.

What is novel about "the internet"? We've been sending data over telegraph wires for nearly 200 years. The Internet is just someone else's cable.

Packet switching and distributed routing protocols.

That was my point, you just went back further in history than I did :p

Then your point is wrong. What's so novel about CPUs? We've had sand since the Earth was first formed!

I swear the tech industry has more luddites than the Amish.

The Amish are not luddites.

They are not capital-L official Luddites, but they could be classified as colloquial lowercase-L luddites.

Since when are cables such a unique idea? The telegraph is nothing more than a large number of fancy carrier pigeons as a service, which we've had since the 12th century at least.

It's turtles all the way down to the Big Bang.