Question

Yes, as you might guess, I want to ask about Cloud-computing. I doubt that why it’s called that. Which characteristics of it made that name?

Answer 1

From wikipedia:

The term cloud is used as a metaphor
for the Internet, based on the cloud
drawing used in the past to represent
the telephone network, and later to
depict the Internet in computer
network diagrams as an abstraction of
the underlying infrastructure it
represents.