"Cloud computing has been one of the greatest gifts to basement hackers & garage startups. It empowered us with the same set of building blocks that the big players have, so we too, can make our dent. I took some time out to understand the past, present & future of this revolution. Here's the story of how it all rained down" -
https://www.cohesive.so/blog/the-history-of-cloud-computing