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Most of the cool new programming paradigms are pretty old. I learned Haskell about 15 years ago and its taken the cool kids years to discover it...

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I bet the "inventor" of the "cloud" thought it was some new discovery too. Those of us useless 40+ people with evil kids and no skills left know different, and smile...

What were the older incarnations of the cloud?

Douglas Parkhill is often credited as the inventor in the 1960s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Parkhill

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