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Why is it called "the cloud"?
Network engineers drew a cloud shape on diagrams to stand for a network whose inner details did not matter, such as the telephone network or the internet. When computing and storage began to be delivered over the internet, the name carried over: your data and software sit somewhere inside that cloud.
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Read more →Engineers used "bug" for a fault in a machine long before computers; Thomas Edison used the word in the 1870s. The well-known story is from 1947, when operators of the Harvard Mark II found a moth in a relay and taped it into the logbook. That made the word famous, but it is not where it began.
Read more →There is no single first ERP. The term "enterprise resource planning" was coined by the research firm Gartner in 1990. ERP grew out of the material requirements planning (MRP) systems of the 1960s and 1970s, which planned materials for manufacturing and were later extended to finance, sales and the rest of the business.
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