The Era of Cloud Computing

It wasn’t until 1947 that the first computer capable of storing a program was created by researchers at Manchester University. The “Manchester Baby,” as it was dubbed, may have been overly cumbersome with a length of 17 feet and limited in its functionality, but it played a pivotal role in the history of computers and software.  

This begun in the early 1960s with the discovery of “packet switching,” which allowed more than two people to use the same network at any given time. This in turn led to the creation of the ARPANET in 1969 which connected multiple computers together and became the first large-scale packet switching network.

The likes of Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Netflix all rely on cloud computing to deliver their services and with countless untapped benefits yet to be discovered, the future remains bright for cloud computing.