Abstract
“There is no cloud,” goes the quip. “It’s just someone else’s computer.” It’s funny because it’s true: With cloud computing, your data and apps reside in a remote data center, which you share with many users even if it feels like it’s all just for you. Remarkably, a very similar mode of computing was also popular from the 1960s into the 1980s, when it was called time-sharing. At one point, the pioneering firm Tymshare boasted the world’s largest commercial computer network. Rivaling even the ARPANET, it gave customers the illusion of having a powerful machine at their disposal, even if it was really someone else’s.
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