Re:Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files
by eccoli on Thursday November 29, 2012 @05:25AM
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I believe it's worse than that.
Since as long as I remember and probably even before that, when explaining networking to executives, marketing and other technically challenged people, we use drawings. In these drawings the part representing the internet is for some reason drawn as a cloud, probably to convey that some magic we don't want to get into the deatils happens there.
Now you've got it, the cloud, a.k.a. the internet symbol for ignorant people.
Since as long as I remember and probably even before that, when explaining networking to executives, marketing and other technically challenged people, we use drawings. In these drawings the part representing the internet is for some reason drawn as a cloud, probably to convey that some magic we don't want to get into the deatils happens there.
Now you've got it, the cloud, a.k.a. the internet symbol for ignorant people.