It is important to understand the concept of the cloud and what it can be used for, but it is also important to understand the technical innovations that led to what we now call the cloud. The purpose of this chapter is to give an overview of the history of key components of the cloud in order to better understand why they were developed and how they shaped today’s cloud computing landscape.
What we call the cloud today is a result of multiple different strands of technical developments. Many of these go far back in time and have surprising origins. Even if one is not historically ...
