BANGALORE, INDIA: Any idea who invented cloud computing? Well, if going by records then it is Western Union, the telegraph company.

As per a document, 1965: Western Union's Future Role-as the Nation's First Cloud Utility, dated March 30, 1965, which is believed to be the  first published evidence of the concept of cloud computing, Western Union had plans to create "a nationwide information utility, which will enable subscribers to obtain, economically, efficiently, immediately, the required information flow to facilitate the conduct of business and other affairs

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