The Cloud: We Have Always Been Here Before

[Mark76]

Netscape began to experiment with prototypes of a web-based system, known internally as "Constellation", which would allow a user to access and edit his or her files anywhere across a network no matter what computer or operating system he or she happened to be using.

Industry observers confidently forecast the dawn of a new era of connected computing. The underlying operating system, it was believed, would become an unimportant consideration; future applications would run within a web browser. This was seen by Netscape as a clear opportunity to entrench Navigator at the heart of the next generation of computing, and thus gain the opportunity to expand into all manner of other software and service market.

Sound familiar? :lolflag:

[MasterNetra]

Sound familiar? :lolflag:

lol Cloud isn't even new, its just something thats now catching on.

[sydbat]

lol Cloud isn't even new, its just something thats now catching on.Again.

[Crunchy the Headcrab]

That sounds like a pretty accurate statement to me. It didn't happen as fast as the article sounds like it is speculating, but a lot of what they have said has already happened. Many of the apps that the average user works with every single day are web based and very independent of user OS.

[Arla]

Yes, and no, as we get faster devices, faster network connections, and more comprehensive network connections, the potential to actually really use cloud computing moves from theory to practice.