"He's posting a joke! I better take him seriously!"

[spatch]

Okay, guys, fun's fun, but the joke's done.

And I appreciate all the hard work that obviously went in to setting up the entire world so that when I woke up one day in November, I hear this new tech buzzword being bantered around like it's been here all along. That's hilarious! You know I like creating fake companies, towns and concepts, and "cloud computing" sure sounds like something I could've come up with. It's great. And it came out of the blue. Just like clouds! I get it! How long did it take you guys to come up with all this?

But let's be serious for a moment here. Jokes have a shelf life, and this one is definitely past its own. Let's get back to mocking, you know, real buzzwords.







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Comments

[bkdelong.livejournal.com]

so are you saying that "cloud computing" is the joke or that people riffing on "cloud computing" is old school?

[ckd]

Hey! You! Get offa my cloud!

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

i think both.

[cloudscout.livejournal.com]

I am particularly offended by this new terminology.

[bostonista.livejournal.com]

Funny part is that it HAS been here all along. Or for at least 6+ years. It's just hitting the mainstream now that Google is running all sorts of (previously desktop-only) apps.

[muffyjo]

Cloud computing has been a concept for over 10 years (I know this because I used to talk to vendors about it back when I did hands-on computer work and that's all but fallen off my resume).

I am, however, amused to hear people using the terminology as if it were real. And, I gather, it is to some extent.

It came from the image used in the networking diagram to describe it. Or at least, that's my understanding of it. Still, as a working concept, I'm amused it's panned out.

[contradictacat.livejournal.com]

Completely unrelated to anything: HOLYCRAP TOM LEHRER VIDEO. Now I know where your icon is from.

[radiotelescope.livejournal.com]

I refuse to call anything "cloud computing" if I know who owns the servers. Gmail is not "the cloud". It's Google. To be "in the cloud", my email would have to be a series of anonymous bittorrent streams bouncing between ad-hoc clients running as screen savers.

(...I mentioned this to my friend the privacy specialist, who promptly replied "You mean it isn't?")