An Analogy

For those of you who are perplexed by techno-jargon:

Computer Timesharing : 1970s :: Cloud Services : 2010s

In other words The Cloud is nothing more than a scalable, sharable computer remote processing and data storage service available over the Internet just as Timesharing was once a scalable, shareable remote computer-processing and data-storage service available over dial-up phone service. The only difference was that Timesharing was sharing the resources of a single computer (at a time) whereas The Cloud is sharing the massive integrated resources of a computer-server and data-storage farm.