Discover the forgotten operating system that quietly predicted cloud computing decades before AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure even existed. This episode uncovers the overlooked innovations from early projects like Multics, ARPANET experiments, Xerox PARC’s networked systems, and the Amoeba distributed OS—revealing how today’s cloud architecture was already imagined long before the modern internet took shape.
Why didn’t this groundbreaking OS change the world when it first appeared? What made the world unprepared for concepts like remote execution, distributed file systems, and virtualized computing? And how did these old ideas evolve into the cloud we rely on today?
In this video, we break down the hidden history, the science, and the surprising brilliance of the pioneers who saw the future coming.
Sources & Citations:
Leiner et al., “A Brief History of the Internet,” Internet Society
MIT Multics History Project
Elliott I. Organick, The Multics System
Xerox PARC technical reports
Andrew S. Tanenbaum & van Renesse, Amoeba OS research
Armbrust et al., “A View of Cloud Computing,” UC Berkeley Tech Report
Which forgotten technology do you think deserves more attention in future episodes?
Chapters:
0:00 The OS that predicted the cloud
0:32 The surprising origin story
0:58 Multics: the proto-cloud
1:24 ARPANET and resource sharing
1:50 Xerox PARC’s networked revolution
2:20 Amoeba and distributed computing
3:10 The birth of cloud principles
4:02 Why the world wasn’t ready
4:52 What this means for today
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