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The Pendulum Swings Toward the Cloud

on May 27, 2010 by Christopher Glenn

All computing used to be cloud computing. I remember playing Oregon Trail on a teletype dialed into the Minnesota Education Computing Consortium's mainframe (that was cloud computing). It was only after the client-server revolution that the pendulum swung the other direction away from the cloud and the game was thereafter distributed on floppy and CD to elementary schools outside of Minnesota. More...