The Tym Before ...

The Tym Before ...

Nathan Gregory Nathan Gregory

Nathan Gregory

Veteran Technologist & Networking Pioneer | Cybersecurity and Crypto Enthusiast | Digital Identity Self-Ownership | Ham Radio Operator | Author of Seven Published Books, Two on Networking & Computing History, five Sci-Fi

发布日期: 2018年1月1日
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The Cloud! It sounds fluffy and soft. Amorphous, remote, floating above the world. Run it in the Cloud, we say. A modern metaphor, but we once had another name, a more descriptive name for using someone else’s computer. The Tym Before ...

We called it time-sharing.

Today we mix the idea of using someone else’s with the concept of a network and call the combination The Cloud, imagining we have invented something new.

But it isn’t so new after all. Beginning in the 1960s, a company created a successful business making remote computer services available inexpensively to anyone via a network built for that purpose. In doing so, they created the first cloud. They called it Tymnet, and the company was Tymshare. The Tym Before ...

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