The Journey of Main Frame Computers to The Cloud
Audience for this article :
You may be involved in Computer Networking filed from years or keen to start a career in Computer Networks then this article will help you to realise why people like us excited about Computer Networks.
Why this article ?
"Defining strong purpose around what you are doing is leads to build interest even in the non-interested stuff"
- Power of Network : LinkedIn, It's helping to build professional network
- Problems solved by Computer Networks : COVID-19 updated in fraction of seconds
- Think world without the Networks : You won't be able to message your loved once
Upcoming Sections :
- New born baby : Computer Networks
- Technology Evolution so do our baby ( Network )
- The Curious Cloud
A. New Born Baby : Computer Networks :
Computer : Manipulates information
Network : Interact and Exchange information
Computer Networks : Interact and Exchange resources with a group of connected computers
B. Technology Evolution so do our baby : Network
Feel that you are in 1950s and one huge bulky computer can access by pulling long cable to your private desk. You got the remote console to login to that bulky stuff. but sapricingly you are not the only one who is gone access this bulky computer. Your colleague too get an access in the same way.
Now let say, You need some data from your colleague then it's quite easy to do it because you are sharing same computing resource - No other intelligent device is involved except bulky computer - Main Frame Computer.
From their onwards people get habituated to share resources between multiple users.
Now help your self to fast forward and stay some time in 1990s. Changes in Technology makes it possible to replace end device remote console to functional device. Now you as the end user get access of some computing features.
It just feels awesome when you get access to functional device rather than dull remote console. But still its not fully functional - The server devices are more powerful than the client devices because they have more computing resources
Here Serves can be treated as the Main Frame Computers. Humans tends to give the new names to the existing systems to feel the progress - After all we all love Dopamine!
C. The Curious Cloud
Now industry revolved and we got bored to listen the server and client names all the time from past two decades. So to motivate people in the industry we keep on inventing buzz words. So Cloud and IoT, Probably you have heard this before.
What ever we call it - Main Frame Computer, Server, Client, Cloud, IoT - at the end it leads to How and What we are sharing as a resources between connected devices.