{"id":10718,"date":"2014-05-05T23:42:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/may\/06\/step-back-time-t-predicts-cloud-1993\/"},"modified":"2014-05-05T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T23:42:09","slug":"step-back-in-time-att-predicts-the-cloud-in-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/step-back-in-time-att-predicts-the-cloud-in-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"Step back in time: AT&amp;T predicts the cloud in 1993"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of cloud computing, or running multiple computational systems on a network, is not a new one, of course. But it&rsquo;s often fascinating to note the history of computing, from IBM&rsquo;s 50th anniversary of the mainframe earlier this year to time-sharing on a CPU mainframe.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, a video posted by renowned filmmaker David Hoffman has brought about a fascinating insight on AT&amp;T&rsquo;s vision of cloud computing as far back as 1993.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You can think of our electronic meeting place as the cloud&rdquo;, the video tells AT&amp;T customers.<\/p>\n<p>The video was put up in April last year but came to wider attention after Salesforce.com chief exec Marc Benioff tweeted it out last night:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>If you want to know who invented the cloud take a look at this: https:\/\/t.co\/8VPDgKPbO5 @marcporat<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marc Benioff (@Benioff) May 6, 2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The technology which arises &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of cloud computing, or running multiple computational systems on a network, is not a new one, of course. But it&rsquo;s often fascinating to note the history of computing, from IBM&rsquo;s 50th anniversary of the mainframe earlier this year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}