I guess you've heard the word "cloud" a lot these days.
We use services like Naver Cloud to store our photos and videos. Many companies use SAP software to manage their business operations. But have you ever wondered why it’s called the "cloud"? ☁️
It’s actually a metaphor. In the 1980s, early network diagrams often used a fluffy cloud shape to represent the internet or external networks. These were seen as complex and undefined, but outside the system you were building. Because they were considered invisible and hard to define, people chose the image of a cloud to represent them. Think of it like this. Instead of running software on your own computer or your company’s servers, you send requests into a "cloud," and it gives you back results, storage, or services as if by magic. You don’t need to understand everything that happens inside. It just works.
