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minus-squareJokeDeity@lemm.eeBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 年前The cloud is one of the worst industry terms ever created. Old people still have zero concept and ability to understand how it works. Just had to deal with this with a grandmother who “backed up everything to the cloud before I reset it!”
minus-squaretaladar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 年前It basically started out as a literal cloud for “everything else” in network diagrams.
minus-squarezalgotext@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 年前And they only switched from using a black box to a cloud so it was less scary looking for the marketing types
The cloud is one of the worst industry terms ever created. Old people still have zero concept and ability to understand how it works. Just had to deal with this with a grandmother who “backed up everything to the cloud before I reset it!”
It basically started out as a literal cloud for “everything else” in network diagrams.
And they only switched from using a black box to a cloud so it was less scary looking for the marketing types