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Re:iCloud for Developers by gumby on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @05:45PM (#7842927)
> The word cloud is a crock and i'm not going to get into that.

I can't resist slightly getting into it: it was a perfectly decent metaphor until some marketing numbskull heard a technical person use it and decided to stretch it in ways that made it meaningless.

Back when it simply meant, "look, you push your packets into the network and a bunch of routers decide how to get it to its destination without you having to worry about routing" it was fine.

Re:iCloud for Developers by easytiger on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @11:32AM (#7846130)
There's already a name for that: An IPv4/v6 network.
Re:iCloud for Developers by gumby on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @10:16PM (#7849833)
Indeed, that is exactly the correct term.

But as a metaphor: I think Jon Postel might have been the first person I heard use the term. I also feel like there was such a picture in some of the early IP documents (like the internet protocol transition handbook in the early 80s) but that stuff I had on paper and it's stuck in a box someplace.

Regardless, it's been horribly abused by marketing people and does need to be dragged out back and put down.