The so-called Cloud is really just someone else’s computer. I realized this thanks to what may be the most educational bumper sticker of all time. While I understand computers, data, and much of the technological mechanics that run the internet, discussion about the Cloud had sold me an image, and I had allowed it to. I had stopped thinking about the actual mechanics of the internet and was living the dream.

Turns out that the dram, like many movie plots, is really a circus of technology instead of a fluffy amorphous cloud.