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by jasoneckert
1116 days ago
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It's always nice to see early definitions of the Web, because those definitions are something we've largely lost today on a societal level (or confused with the Internet or the cloud). The Internet is a worldwide computer network and the World Wide Web refers to the worldwide collection of web servers (wherever they may be) hosting HTML-accessible content. And the cloud is just a new term for the World Wide Web that expands the definition to include the worldwide collection of any Internet-accessible service, including web apps. |
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I think of cloud computing as network-accessible computing resources, often provided by commercial services like AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.. (Though private clouds are also a possibility.)
These services typically provide web-based management interfaces and HTTPS-based control APIs, but the computing resources themselves are not tied to the web or HTTP(S). For example I usually interact with cloud computing resources using SSH - a modern equivalent to the remote terminal/remote login protocols that predated the web by decades.
Perhaps you are thinking of CDNs like Cloudflare or Akamai which cache web content for faster access, scalability, and resistance to DDoS?