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From Abacus to Containers — A Brief History of Computing

This post appeared first on: From Abacus to Containers — A Brief History of Computing Do you remember your first HTML rendered on the world wide web or your first “hello world” application?

We nonetheless see the result of it: The first calculator — the first counting device used to count large numbers — the “Abacus”.

The first person to use the term cloud computing was Professor Ramnath Chellappa in 1997, and the first company that turned this concept into a business was Salesforces in 1999.

This separation is based on a concept similar to that of partitioned application modules, communicating using web services and applications.