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Re:Why We're Moving on from Firebase by js2 on Saturday October 15, 2022 @04:59PM (#33218595)
> App Engine was launched in 2008, before GCP, before docker and before Cloud was a term

Cloud computing was a term at least as far back as 1999. We didn't have the technology quite right that soon, but we had the idea and the term:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opsware

https://www.wired.com/2000/08/loudcloud/

Archived version of Wired article: https://archive.ph/TeLPQ

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Re:Why We're Moving on from Firebase by gen220 on Saturday October 15, 2022 @11:21PM (#33220786)
I've heard that General Magic [1] were the originator of the phrase "Cloud" (compute & data distributed across heterogeneous hardware).

I went digging and found an earlier WIRED article on General Magic, using the word a few times [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic

[2]: https://www.wired.com/1994/04/general-magic/

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Re:Why We're Moving on from Firebase by pjmlp on Sunday October 16, 2022 @04:18AM (#33222033)
Sun's motto was "The network is the computer" actually.

And back in the 2000s, CERN was having a go at their own cloud infrastructure, with the name of Grid Computing.

http://cds.cern.ch/record/560415/files/cer-002318141.pdf

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