Infographic: How Cloud Collaboration Has Evolved From the 1960s to Today
"The cloud" has become so prevalent, it was even the basis for a bad rom-com (Sex Tape). But did you know it's been around since the 1960s?
“And what’s the deal with the cloud?” At this point, jokes about the cloud have reached airline food-level status of hackneyed. “Where does it all go?” “It’s a mystery!”
Evidence: Sex Tape, a rom-com that was basically one big joke about the cloud. When something becomes the basis of a rom-com, you know it’s become prevalent in our everyday lives.
Cloud computing’s 50-year history
But did you know that cloud computing has actually been around since the 1960s? That’s not the setup to a bad joke about hippies liking to work together in harmony; it’s just true. And as cloud storage, cloud networking, and high-tech creative collaborative tools like Google Drive, Adobe Creative Suite, and even our platform here at Contently have become essential to modern newsroom operations, it’s worth taking a look back to see how we got here and how far we’ve come.
This excellent infographic from WebDAM gives a rundown of the big moments that have changed the way we work together, as well as a look into the future of creative collaboration. Let’s just hope that’s a future without any more cloud-based rom-coms.
