00Cedar and the Cloud...
From: Chuck Darling
August 18, 2025
The Cloud...
What is it ?
Every now and then, the Media
changes terms...
It can be Confusing.
What is the Cloud, and how does
it differ from the Internet ?
Well ...
What is the Internet ?
Originally called the ARPANET,
the Internet is a widespread collection of computer devices,
that are connected to each other
by communication links, originally
Dial-up phone connections.
So...
That's the Internet.
What about the World Wide Web ?
Well, that's the Internet as most of us know it...
The WWW is a collection of
WEB-SERVERS on the Internet,
that provide Hyperlinked HTML
pages from their Server Computers.
Server Computers have storage,
and content, and programs, and upload storage.
So...
What about the Cloud..?
The Cloud (s) are a collection
of specialized Web-Servers
That have Storage, and upload
space, and programs, and
Cloud Computing capability.
The Cloud doesn't just provide
Web-Pages..
The Cloud provides Super-Computer
computational power to the users.
The Cloud is less like a dial-up
Web Page provider of the 1990's...
It is more like a
that would allow you to access another computer several offices away, and RUN PROGRAMS on that computer.
Using That BIG Computer's computational power !
The Cloud services are accessed
through Apps that you have on your
Local Computer.
Through those Apps, the Cloud Storage looks like another drive
on your computer.
There is concern that the Cloud is rather fragile, the major market Cloud Providers have no backup for their systems...
Companies like IBM provide
Hybrid Cloud solutions, which
include a local Mainframe, which
backs up the Cloud Storage as it is being used, and can provide
Local Computation and storage,
in the event of any disruption
of the Cloud access.
In a Tiny way, 00Cedar provides
similar functions, building and
storing LOCAL HTML PAGES,
which can be accessed in the event
of Internet outages.
00Cedar does not serve to the Web
directly, you have to invest the effort
to build On-Line replicas, or to build
Local Pages that summarize Online Pages.
When we played ADVENTURE in the
Late 1970's, we were dialing into
some BIG COMPUTER, and using the Storage and Computational Power
of that Computer.
When most of us use our Smartphones and Computers,
we are simply using them as
DUMB TERMINALS to the Internet.
00Cedar unlocks the unused Computational power of your Smartphone.
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